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How to install Microsoft® Surface® 2.0 SDK without installing Visual Studio


I have a kiosk application build on Microsoft® Surface® 2.0 SDK and WPF.

The device for deployment is a kiosk and Visual Studio is not installed.

When running the application on the kiosk I miss some dlls Microsoft.Surface.Core, so I tried to install Microsoft® Surface® 2.0 SDK but it require VS.

Error:

You must install Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 or Microsoft Visual C# 2010 express before you install Microsoft Surface 2.0 sdk.

I would like to know a work around in order to install SDK without having VS... or an alternative approach?


Solution

  • The SDK requires Visual Studio, but the runtime does not. Download the runtime components from the same location you've probably downloaded the SDK from.

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    When you click download you have the option to just download the runtime installer.