The Windows Software Development Kit

When you install Visual Studio 2015 with the .NET Framework and the development environment, the setup process also installs the Windows SDK on your machine. This SDK provides additional tools and libraries that are useful for developing applications for the .NET Framework. Microsoft released the Windows SDK, which provides tools for building both managed and unmanaged applications. The Windows SDK is installed in the C:Program Files (x86)Windows Kits10 folder. It includes several additional tools also used by Microsoft Visual Studio for tasks different from building assemblies, such as deployment and code analysis, and for generating proxy classes for WCF projects. You do not typically need to invoke these tools manually because Visual Studio does that work for you. You can find information on the Windows SDK tools throughout this book.