Showing posts with label Windows 10 SDK. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Windows 10 SDK. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 09, 2016

Applying Update3 to Visual Studio 2015 Community Update 2

I had wrongly assumed that I had updated my Visual Studio 2015 Community version to Update 3. You can get the Update in a couple of ways. You can update right from Visual Studio IDE as shown here by choosing the option in the Notifications window.


Another way would be to do so from Control Panel. The highlighted item is Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 2.


 Right click and click on Change. Visual Studio Starts up as shown.



Click on the checkbox Update 3 inside the window and click Next.


Some Android related items and Update 2 will be removed.


The updating process was successful and the computer needs restarting.


Here is the HELP screen from the updated version.

Updated items added to Control Panel's Programs and Features:



Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Jump start building drivers for Windows 10 with Windows Driver Kit (WDK) 10

Windows Driver Kit (WDK) 10 provides you the environment necessary for creating efficient quality drivers for devices that must run on WIndows 10. This release has the following:
  • Visual Studio Tools for Windows 10
  • Windows SDK for Windows 10
With these tools you can
  • Build
  • Test
  • Debug
  • and  Deploy Windows drivers.
First install Visual Studio Community 2015 as described here. However this time you go for custom installation to install C++ and Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015
Also Install Windows 10 Tools

Also install Windows Driver Kit(WDK) 10 from here:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=526733
New features of Kits and Tools here:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/hardware/dn927348(v=vs.85).aspx

Get yourself a set of good books on C++.

For starters using the Visual Studio Community 2015 IDE read these:
http://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/2015/07/how-do-you-create-c-windows-console.html
http://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/2015/08/how-do-you-create-visual-c-clr-console.html
 
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