In an email to the Developer Division & Windows SDK Contributors at Microsoft, Lori Pearce - Product Unit Manager announced that the Windows SDK for Windows Vista has shipped! Yoho!!
The site went live earlier - if you havent seen it yet here are the links
ISO Install:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7614FE22-8A64-4DFB-AA0C-DB53035F40A0&displaylang=en
Web Install:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C2B1E300-F358-4523-B479-F53D234CDCCF&displaylang=en
Here are a few stats from Lori -
Below are just a few interesting statistics about this SDK.
1. The Windows SDK for Windows Vista includes support for .NET Framework 3.0 and can be used to write applications that target Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 as well as Windows Vista.
2. Stats for the Documentation:
a. SDK docs have over 100 million words
b. Approximately 304K topics: 106K native + 198K managed
c. Approximately 149K “New in Vista” topics
3. Stats for the Samples:
a. 745 Non-.NET 3.0 Samples
i. 200 New to Vista
1. Covers 164 (48%) of Vista features with new Win32 APIs
ii. Mostly native Win32/COM in C++
b. 801 .NET Samples
|
.NET 3.0 Samples |
# of Unique |
C# Coverage |
VB Coverage |
|
WCF |
146 |
100% |
72% |
|
WF |
60 |
100% |
95% |
|
WPF |
434 |
98% |
58% |
|
Cross Technology |
23 |
96% |
9% |
|
.NET 2.0 |
138 |
95% |
80% |
|
Totals |
801 |
98% |
66% |
4. Stats for the Tools:
a. Native Development: 1,700 Headers + 281 Libs + 110 Tools
b. .NET (Managed) Development
i. 14 Reference Assemblies supporting .NET, Tablet PC, Windows PowerShell, MMC, etc.
ii. 33 Intellisense Files
iii. 70 .NET 2.0 Tools + 10 .NET 3.0 Tools
c. Visual Studio 2005 Integration
i. Utilities to enable Visual Studio 2005 to easily use Windows SDK headers and libs
ii. Visual Studio 2005 Wizards for creating WMP applications
5. Fully componentized Setup
a. Appropriately granular custom setup options
i. 36 separate MSIs, from a variety of teams including the SDK team
ii. Recognizes external MSIs that are already installed
b. The web install downloads only what you select
i. Estimated download time per selected component
ii. Cumulative and per component disk space costing
c. Fully SQM’ed
Now its the Final countdown for the Windows Vista Release ...