Re: platform SDK

Alex Blekhman wrote:
"Jim Johnson" wrote:
Does the platform SDK provide addition libraries / APIs in
addition to
standard API that's already come with VC++?

Above is the reason to install platform SDK?

There is no such thing as "standard API". Each version of VC++ is

There most certainly is, but it's completely orthogonal to the Platform SDK
(now renamed Windows 2008 SDK I think).

bundled with Platform SDK that is current to the date of a product
release. If you need newer functions that were introduced after
the VC++ shipment, then you download latest PSDK. That's all.

Or if you have the Express Edition, which includes only the standard library
and doesn't have the Windows SDK at all.


Alex


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