Platform SDK's

Fluid Byte · Post by **Fluid Byte** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:57 pm

If I'm not mistaken there are currently 2 SDK's available:

- Windows® Server 2003 R2 Platform SDK
- Windows® Server 2003 SP1 Platform SDK

Are there others? Wich one is newer / better?

I am a little confused...

SFSxOI · Post by **SFSxOI** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:13 pm

There is another one thats more current that got released for Vista which is the newest one.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

includes .Net 3.0 also. and will do windows 2003 as well.

Fluid Byte · Post by **Fluid Byte** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:27 pm

Over 1GB!

But it seems to be the most complete package available.

Thanks for the info!

Fluid Byte · Post by **Fluid Byte** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:58 pm

Heck, the installtion failed 3 times. And even though it's installed now the content list is empty and if I press F1 in PB for a specific command it says "No topics could be located". It only works online, even if I force local search.

netmaestro · Post by **netmaestro** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 10:23 pm

I'm probably missing something but the only SDK I can get directly from PB is the oldest one, SP1. The other two don't respond from the ide for me at all. So I'm using SP1 for now.

Fluid Byte · Post by **Fluid Byte** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:46 pm

No, it works just fine. I press F1 and get help for the current API call. Directly from PB. Problem is that it only works online. And when I said it's not working local/offline I meant there is not data at all! The content list is empty. Even though it may not work in PB I'm not even able to use it alone, manually.

This is what I get for local search:

PS: Ok, forget the favorite list but you get the idea...

ricardo · Post by **ricardo** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:57 pm

1 GB and shows void/empty????????????

Fluid Byte · Post by **Fluid Byte** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:41 pm

No, the data is there. I checked the folder. But the viewer seems to be screwed.

Fluid Byte · Post by **Fluid Byte** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 5:05 pm

I just launched the shortcut for the PSDK from the Start menu and it worked!

Content list, index list, it's all there but the F1 compatibility problem still remains. Pressing F1 in the IDE actually gives you help but it will only work online, not with local data. But using online only help is slow as hell.

Anybody got this new PSDK locally working in the IDE yet?