I've very recently decided to teach myself c++
and win32
programming after learning vb.net
, and I've got a very simple question:
How can I determine what version of the Windows SDK
is installed on my computer?
I'm asking so I can install the latest version if it isn't installed already, before I start playing around with c++
. I'm using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1
as my IDE
.
On English locale at least:
should work. It is quite likely that there will be multiple versions installed, which is the right one for an one build can only be specified by that project.
For latest versions, check under this regedit key:
or under:
The current version of the Windows SDK is stored in the
CurrentVersion
value of the following registry key:and it can be retrieved using this PowerShell one-liner:
If you need to determine, while compiling, what version of the Windows SDK is being used then you can use the VER_PRODUCTBUILD macro, which is defined in ntverp.h. For instance:
In most cases this should not be necessary because a product should be designed to build with a particular platform SDK. But for some large products there may be a desired to support multiple platform SDKs. This can be particularly useful when migrating from one to another. If there is a bug in a header file (such as the bogus "#pragma pop" in the Windows 8.1 SDK version of bthledef.h) then you may need to workaround this bug, but not include the workaround when using the Windows 10 SDK or higher.