Preview WDK with Visual Studio 2026 Support Now Available!

Some of you may recall this comment from an earlier thread:

"The WDK never supports a new Visual Studio right away. Since each WDK only supports a specific Visual Studio version that makes sense. Once 2026 stabilizes I'm sure we
will see the WDK transition to it. When that will be though no one knows. I feel like it was quite a few months before we got one that supported Visual Studio 2022."

Well, that day has come! We're happy to announce that a preview release of the WDK with Visual Studio 2026 support is now available.

Full details and setup instructions here: Announcing Preview WDK with VS2026

Please don't hesitate to share what works, what doesn't, and what you'd like to see improved.

Awesome!

Now I can using the latest Visual Studio and WDK releases to write drivers that I can’t sign and release because MSFT has for no reason as without warning revoked our access to the hardware dashboard!

I, for one, am feeling good about that.

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I should not be laughing at Peter’s post but I am.

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