I thought for a moment I was missing something here. I always just use winget for this sort of thing as well. It may kickoff a bunch of things, but it’s pretty low effort and reliable.
> What if you have two different project with different requirements at the same time?
Install multiple versions of Windows SDK. They co-exist just fine; new versions don’t replace old ones. When I was an independent contractor, I had 4 versions of visual studio and 10 versions of windows SDK all installed at once, different projects used different ones.
Windows SDKs, WDKs (driver dev), Visual Studio releases, and .NET SDKs all coexist peacefully on a machine. If a project build breaks due to newer SDKs, it's because it was configured with "use newest version". (Which is usually fine but sometimes requires pinning if you're using more "niche" things like WDK)
Nearly all of the Windows hate i see comes from 20 year old takes . ( the bing/cortana / copilot / ads slop criticism is warranted, but is also easily disabled).
macshome|14 days ago
scotty79|14 days ago
Every language should have a tool like Python uv.
Const-me|14 days ago
Install multiple versions of Windows SDK. They co-exist just fine; new versions don’t replace old ones. When I was an independent contractor, I had 4 versions of visual studio and 10 versions of windows SDK all installed at once, different projects used different ones.
smileybarry|13 days ago
tonymet|14 days ago
malkia|14 days ago