Installing Windows Vista SDK - Hand Book

Windows Vista or .Net 3.0 development is one of the upcoming promises from Microsoft. It is still in beta stage and expected to be released on first quarter of 2007. We are working upon the VISTA SDK since last February.
In my office I found many of the team members are facing problems in installing the windows Vista SDK (.Net 3.0 SDK). What I usually does is to go into their systems and help them out to find the related sites and solve the problems. when I asked them to look into documentation for installation instructions it seems to be much complicated....especially for freshers.
I think there may be a lot of persons who are looking for a hand book where they can easily find most of the details related to installation of SDK. Those who are in need can look down for details regarding installation of SDK.

Requirements:

System Requirements:

Supported Operating Systems:

Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 editions; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1; Windows Server 2003 x64 editions; Windows Vista; Windows XP Service Pack 2.

Hard disk space. Disk drive with a minimum of 2.0 GB of free space.

Knowledge in Topics:

Knowledge in .Net framework 2.0.
Knowledge in Windows Applications (for understanding WPF section)
Knowledge of Generics in .Net 2.0.

Windows Vista SDK RTM.

Web Setup: You require iInternet connection for every installation:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c2b1e300-f358-4523-b479-f53d234cdccf&displaylang=en

Offline Installer: This you can install in disconnected mode. This may be useful if you have to install in multiple machines or low Internet speed or offline install.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/b/3/1b3f749d-e215-482c-a004-5d9c26c75c92/6.0.6000.0.0.WindowsSDK_Vista_rtm.DVD.Rel.img

Note:

If you want to download the windows SDK your windows registration must be a valid one. Microsoft will check it out windows registration validity with Windows Genuine Validation Tool before proceeding to installation page.

The .NET Framework 3.0 tools and samples contained in this SDK are designed to work on Windows Vista or on Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1 with the .NET Framework 3.0 Runtime Components installed. If you do not have the .NET Framework 3.0 components installed, some samples, tools, and other SDK functionality will not work properly on the down-level operating systems.

.Net Framework 3.0 Beta

Web Setup: You require Internet connection for every installation:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=10CC340B-F857-4A14-83F5-25634C3BF043&displaylang=en

Offline Setup: This you can install in disconnected mode. This may be useful if you have to install in multiple machines or low Internet speed or offline install.

32 Bit: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70848
64 Bit: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70849


Windows Workflow Foundation Extensions for Visual Studio(You require this to be installed to enable VS 2005 IDE with Workflow foundation features)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5D61409E-1FA3-48CF-8023-E8F38E709BA6&displaylang=en

Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Presentation Foundation Extensions for VS 2005:(You require this to be installed to enable VS 2005 IDE features)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f54f5537-cc86-4bf5-ae44-f5a1e805680d&displaylang=en

XMLNotePad - a tool for managing XAML and XAML documents outside Visual Studio

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=72D6AA49-787D-4118-BA5F-4F30FE913628&displaylang=en



Install Order:

1) install .Net Framework 3.0
2) install Extensions for WPF,WCF and WF;
3) if you want to study .Net 3.0 detail you can download and install the SDK. It contains all the documentation and samples
4) XMLNotepad is required only if you works extensive on WPF.

Note: Visual Studio Express Editions are not compatible with SDK.