Install Windows 8 SDK after installing OS?

Question

I have installed Windows 8 from the smaller x64 disc image (without developer tools) as I didn't have a spare dual layer disc around - is there any way of installing the tools / SDK separately?

Answer 1

Get the SDK/WDK from MSDN subscriber page:

en_windows_developer_preview_sdk_wdk_x86_x64_734757.zip

extract it and run the Windows Software Development Kit-x86_en-us.msi.

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Answer 2

Is there anyway to do this without having an msdn subscription?

Answer 3

On Friday the public gets the VS11 Preview, so maybe the SDK is released, too.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jasonz/archive/2011/09/14/announcing-visual-studio-11-developer-preview.aspx

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Answer 4

When I run that installer, it starts up, gives me a small loading bar saying "Please wait while Windows configures Windows Software Development Kit", and then it just quits without installing anything...

Answer 5

Cound my voice as one to request this as well. I understand the necessity of going over the size of one DVD, but there needs either a seperate install of the developer tools or multi-disc version of the combined install.

 

 

Answer 6

The Windows Developer Preview SDK/WDK (x86 and x64) - (English) product that was posted on the MSDN Subscribers Download site has been removed. In order to develop applications using the Windows 8 SDK, please review the following post: “Which Windows 8 images and Visual Studio tools support Windows Metro style development and which support desktop development?”

Answer 7

If you are looking for latest windows 8 RC, Downloaded the Windows 8 Release Preview from http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/release-preview.

(You can find ISO files at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso.)

Download the Visual Studio 2012 RC:

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads#professional

You see the steps to install at http://kishore1021.wordpress.com/2012/07/10/getting-started-with-windows-8-release-preview-development-using-visual-studio-2012/

Regards,

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