Does anyone know how to download the help contents of the Windows SDK 7.1 to a computer not connected to the internet? So far I've come across this, but it doesn't have a Windows SDK or Platform SDK item listed.
This link came from the MSDN Blog article, which is not very helpful since they ask us to connect the computer to the internet (which I can't do), and the comments comprise of people complaining about Microsoft's incompetence.
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I want to compile the examples of the Windows Media Device Manager 11 SDK - but I cannot figure out how to download it. The original download link doesn't work - and in the Windows SDK I cannot find the examples!
EDIT2: I want to access devices via MTP on Windows 7 with an custom application.
You could try the following link:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/c/3/ac367925-39e7-4451-a175-a224f94fbdce/wmformat11sdk.exe
It was buried down in the comments on the SDK documentation.
EDIT:
If you're wanting to do MTP on Windows 7, you might want to look at the Windows 7 Portable Device Enabling Kit for MTP:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463543.aspx
The webpage you provided for that SDK states the Windows Media Device Manager 11 SDK is a component of a Microsoft Kit.
I discovered via Google search that there are different kits depending on the Windows version your using.
That same first page of hits revealed Aaron Stebner's WebLog which provides the Microsoft links you need to download this kit for Windows 7:
Microsoft Windows Media Software Development Kit
That 112.5 MB Kit also contains documentation, tools, and sample code to get you started.
Since MTP (Media Transport Protocol) is part of that Kit's framework, I'm hoping there's going to be examples provided once you download and install the MSI package the complete kit, but this should get you going in the right direction.
Am I able to download the Visual Web Developer 11 Beta ISO or EXE?
I have a very bad Internet connection that drops out all the time, so I would like to download it at a friend’s place and not use the Web Platform Installer if it can be helped.
If you are an MSDN subscriber, you should be able to download the ISO from the MSDN Subscriber Downloads page. But I suppose that you are not, considering that you're asking this question!
Unfortunately, I cannot find an official ISO of Visual Web Developer 11 Beta that is publically available on Microsoft's website.
However, you can download an ISO of any of the 4 editions of Visual Studio 11 here, which would include all of the functionality of Visual Web Developer. For example, the Professional version is available here. The download is slightly larger, but if the Internet connection is stable, that should not be an issue.
Thanks guys but I found it here http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28975 VS11_BETA_ULT_ENU.iso is the one.
Now I have it all up and running i'm not sure if I like it!!!
you could use internet download manager, even if your connection drops out the downloaded parts would not be corrupted.
Today I wanted to unlock the WP7 emulator in order to see some more functionalities available like: task manager, accessing isolated storage files and look over default applications like Office, Messaging and others, but I could not make it work ...
I followed the instructions from here but I'm not having the [YourHardDrive]:/Program Files/Microsoft SDKs/WindowsPhone/v7.0/Emulation/Images folder . In [YourHardDrive]:/Program Files/Microsoft SDKs/WindowsPhone/v7.0/Emulation folder I have only the following files:
WM7_Skin.xml
WM7_Skin_Down.png
WM7_Skin_Mask.png
WM7_Skin_Up.png
I looked over others tutorials related to unlock emulator and all of them are pointing to an Image folder - which in my case doesn't exists
Did anyone also faced with this problem?
I am curious: Why Microsoft doesn't provide by default access to an 'unlocked' emulator ?
Thanks.
The instructions you linked to are from a very early pre-beta release of the Windows Phone SDK, over six month before the phone released! So you don't have to wonder why they aren't working anymore.
You may search the XDA forums for an unlocked version of the 7.0 emulator image, but that version isn't up-to-date either. Currently RTM is version 7.1 of the SDK for the so-called "Mango" release of Windows Phone 7.5 - but it's currently not possible to "unlock" the restrictions Microsoft put into that emulator image, either. There are some possibilities to launch some of the internal applications / dialogs with a tool from the 7.1 SDK and their corresponding GUIDs. You may take a look at this and this article for some instructions.
The forums at xda-developers often post unlocked emulators. The one that I recently pulled down is here. It is in Italian but just go into the settings and change it to the language you would like.
Does anyone know where I can download the last Platform SDK to work with VC6? The links I could find by Googling all seem to be dead.
I managed to find it here... (official or not)
http://docs.moodle.org/dev/FebruaryPlatformSDK
If you have an MSDN subscription, the Platform SDK (February 2003) and others are available under "Tools and Resources -> Platform SDK and DDKs"
The last Windows Platform SDK that fully supported VC6 was the Windows 2003 SDK, February 2003. However, through legitimate channels, you can not find this SDK for download anymore, and it looks like no one even has it for ordering, as links to the order sites are dead as well.
See this old MSDN blog post about the unavailability of the PSDK online, and the link to order it is dead: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowssdk/archive/2006/06/20/640172.aspx
However, not all hope is lost. From this more recent post on the MSDN forums: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/windowssdk/thread/d63fb448-c417-4f8e-9260-5a8082daa2af
As Karin Meier says, you can obtain a copy of the February 2003 PSDK from this site:
http://mssdk.orderport.net/22221848/showall.asp
The disc itself doesn't cost anything, but you will probably have to pay shipping.
And of course, unless it is absolutely necessary to use VC6, I'd recommend moving up to a current and supported version of the VC++ compiler.
On official Windows® Server 2003 SP1 Platform SDK Web Install page, quote:
This SDK does not support working with Microsoft Visual C/C++®, 6.0 as
support for VC 6.0 has ended. The last SDK that will work with VC
6.0 is the February 2003 Edition, you can order a CD on the
fulfillment site. Side by side installations are not supported.
Links to download Platform SDK February 2003 Edition in case you have not subscribed to MSDN:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/PSDK-FULL.1.cab
http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/PSDK-FULL.2.cab
http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/PSDK-FULL.3.cab
http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/PSDK-FULL.4.cab
http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/PSDK-FULL.5.cab
http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/PSDK-FULL.6.cab
http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/PSDK-FULL.7.cab
http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/PSDK-FULL.8.cab
http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/PSDK-FULL.9.cab
http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/PSDK-FULL.10.cab
http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/PSDK-FULL.11.cab
http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/PSDK-FULL.12.cab
http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/PSDK-FULL.13.cab
http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/PSDK-FULL.bat
http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sdk/update/win98mexp/en-us/3790.0/FULL/Extract.exe
Term of use available after unpacking distribution.
If that links once disappear try http://archive.org/web/ or contact members of https://winworldpc.com/ or similar comunity for abandonware.
For example all .cab available on https://web.archive.org/web/20100318065128/http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/psdk-full.htm page.
My company is planning on developing for Windows Phone 7. The build server we have, however runs Windows Server 2008. According to the Windows Phone SDK release notes I've read that only Windows Server is not supported for the SDK.
Does anyone have any experience on whether there's a possible workaround to have a Windows Server 2008 machine build Windows Phone 7 projects?
Update: I'm interested in building on a WS 2008 as we're talking about a project with a larger team where continous integration and centralized builds are essential. I'd be hoping we wouldn't have to set up an additional Windows 7 build server for this task.
Most the issues of this nature come into play meeting the emulator's requirements rather than the development tools.
With that said some are hacking around the walls put up to stop people going into the unsupported territory of WS2008.
Judging by your requirements I'd say dive in. If you have the option to test on device or in emulators in Win7, that will place you well.
This post likely of interest.
Aaron Stebner's WebLog : How to install the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP Refresh on Windows Server 2008
If someone is interested here is instruction how to modify ISO image of the WinPhone 7.1 SDK for installing it on Windows Server. Basically it's the same Aaron Stebner solution, the only difference is that you need to modify it in the ISO image.