Sometimes pissing in the wind is the right thing to do 
Thanks Jakob!
Mark Roddy
On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Jakob Lichtenberg
wrote:
> > So: SDK claims 2015 not supported 2017 required. WDK claims 2017 not
> support, 2015 required.
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> Yep that is a bummer. Very sorry about the situation. This is fixed
> internally. For what it is worth: Here is an insider preview of a WDK that
> supports Visual Studio 2017: https://www.microsoft.com/en-
> us/software-download/windowsinsiderpreviewWDK . And if you have EEAP
> access then there is a newer build that completes the experience.
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> > Hey MSFT, hows about keeping released versions of SDK/WDK available on
> your servers instead of disappearing them whenever the mood strikes?
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> Karl. Can you take a look at this please. Perhaps we can keep released
> versions available consistently? Perhaps we already have them, but they
> are just hard to discover?
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> Jakob
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> From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com [mailto:bounce-632466-131300@
> lists.osr.com] *On Behalf Of *Mark Roddy
> Sent: Monday, June 5, 2017 6:45 AM
> To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
> Subject: [ntdev] WDK versions and MSFT madness
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> Just because I like to complain.
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> For a while now MSFT has stopped providing access to the various releases
> of the “Windows 10 SDK” and WIndows 10 WDK" and instead provides only a
> link to the latest version. This appears to be regardless of the state of
> the latest version.
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> For example, currently The SDK is 10.0.15063.400 and it’s download page
> clearly notes that
>
> Note: Windows 10 app development targeting Windows 10 Creators Update
> requires Visual Studio 2017. This SDK will not be discovered by previous
> versions of Visual Studio.
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> https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/windows-10-sdk
> https:
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> No link is provided to download earlier versions.
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> If one goes to the WDK download page, which also only offers WDK
> 10.0.15063, you get the following information:
> Install Visual Studio 2015 with update 3; the Windows SDK for Windows 10,
> version 1703; and the WDK for Windows 10, version 1703
>
> All four editions of Visual Studio 2015 support driver development.
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> Important: The WDK is not yet compatible with Visual Studio 2017. Use
> Visual Studio 2015 for driver development.
>
> https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/windows-driver-kit
> https:
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> So: SDK claims 2015 not supported 2017 required. WDK claims 2017 not
> support, 2015 required.
>
> We ran into a header version bug on our build servers, which were using
> SDK/WDK 10.0.10586 and our build devs moved the server forward to
> 10.0.15063 which promptly broke our builds.
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> To resolve this we had to find archived versions of SDK/WDK 10.0.14393,
> which versions both resolve the header version bug and work with VS2015.
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> Hey MSFT, hows about keeping released versions of SDK/WDK available on
> your servers instead of disappearing them whenever the mood strikes?
>
>
> Mark Roddy
>
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