are multiple version of the Windows SDK necessary?

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dub stylee picture dub stylee · Mar 14, 2016 · Viewed 16.7k times · Source

I was just looking through my installed programs to free up some space, and I noticed that there are two versions of the Windows SDK, and the ASP.NET SDK. Are these 32-bit and 64-bit? The package name does not indicate that is the case, so I am wondering if I need both versions of these packages installed?

add/remove programs screenshot

As you can see in the image, Windows SDK 10.1.10586.15 and Windows SDK 10.0.26624, and ASP.NET RC1 Update 1 1.0.20204.0 and ASP.NET RC1 Update 1 10.0.11123.0. Since both packages were installed on the same date, I assume that they are 32-bit and 64-bit, but I would also assume that they would be named such, if that were the case.

These packages are being used for Windows 10 Universal app development in Visual Studio 2015.

Answer

dub stylee picture dub stylee · Mar 15, 2016

I am posting as an answer here from @magicandre1981 comments above, so I can close the question.

Windows SDK 10.0.26624 is the SDK for the first Build 10240 from Summer 2015.

Windows SDK 10.1.10586.15 is the SDK for the November 2015 Update 1511.

I ended up uninstalling both versions and letting Visual Studio install the necessary package to run my project, which ended up being version 10.0.26624.

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