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Are you using the Windows SDK for "Longhorn" Server and .NET Fx 3.5?

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Have you downloaded the Windows SDK for Windows Server code name “Longhorn” and .NET Framework 3.5 yet? This release of the Windows SDK is designed to operate with Beta 3 of Windows Server code name “Longhorn”. The SDK is compatible with the RTM release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 SP1. (If you don’t have VS, Microsoft Visual Studio Express Editions can be downloaded free.) Be sure to read the Release Notes to learn of known issues with the SDK (it is a Beta, after all).

This release of the Windows SDK supports x86, x64, IA64 platforms for building and running samples on Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1, Windows Vista, and Windows Server codename "Longhorn".

The SDK contains content aligned with Windows Server code name “Longhorn” and content that aligns with the upcoming .NET Framework 3.5. The .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 1 is a preview release of the latest version of the .NET Framework and is required to take advantage of any SDK tools or samples with a dependency on .NET Framework 3.5.

.NET Framework 3.5 is planned to release at the end of 2007 and will ship with Visual Studio code name “Orcas” and will also continue to be available for separate download from MSDN. For more detail about the features being introduced in .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio code name “Orcas”, click here. For more information about the .NET Framework, click here.

The Beta 3 release of the Windows SDK is an ISO-only download. This means you’ll need to download the entire ISO and then either burn it to a DVD to use in your local DVD drive, mount it virtually as if it were another drive, or copy the contents locally, in order to run the SDK’s setup.exe. For more details about how to work with the DVD ISO image, check the SDK download page.

A great new feature in this release SDK is an alphabetized list of the APIs in the documentation. Find it in the documentation under Getting Started | Platform Information. You’ll find lists of APIs (also constants, enumerations, and structures) grouped by managed APIs, Win32 and COM APIs, new to Vista APIs, and one large over-arching list of all these APIs.

Usual caveat: this is a Beta and should be installed on a test machine.