Downloads

From this page you will find many downloads to increase both your enjoyment and your productivity when developing Windows client applications.

.NET Framework 4

.NET Framework 4 offers improved performance, pixel-perfect text rendering, a smaller client profile, integration with Windows 7, and increased compatibility with Silverlight. If you're curious about the new features, click here. To download the .NET Framework 4 now, click here.

Essential Downloads

All the downloads needed to get started creating dynamic Windows client applications can be found here. If you're curious about the new features of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4, click here.

.NET Framework 3.5 SP1

The .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 delivers more controls, a streamlined setup, improved start-up performance, and powerful new graphics features for WPF development. If you're curious about the new features, click here. To download the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 now, click here.

Starter Kits

Syndicated Client Starter Kit

Introducing the new Syndicated Client Enterprise (SCE) Starter Kit! Built with Microsoft's new Sync Framework - the kit makes it easy to create rich, syndicated multimedia and content experiences to engage your customer. (Source code included.)

1.0 Windows Forms Starter Kits

For earlier versions of .NET, the Microsoft product team released a number of sample projects designed to help you get started building Windows Forms 1.x applications.

Samples

WPF Samples

These are task-based samples that are an excellent way to learn about various features of Windows Presentation Foundation. Each sample is a short walk through, some providing online demonstrations of the final result.

Windows Forms Samples

These are task-based samples that are an excellent way to learn about various features of Windows Forms. Each sample is a short walk through, some providing online demonstrations of the final result.

Additional SDKs, Toolkits and Related Downloads

Extended WPF Toolkit

This community toolkit led by Brian Lagunas is a collection of WPF controls, components, and utilities made available outside the normal WPF Toolkit. It includes new items as well as...

WPF Presence Controls for Office Communicator 2007

The presence controls provide applications with presence information for contacts that is presented in visual styles and with behaviors similar to those in Microsoft Office Communicator...

Composite WPF and Silverlight (Prism)

The Composite Client Application Guidance is designed to help you more easily build modular Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight client applications. These types of...

WPF Ribbon

The WPF Ribbon is a native WPF implementation of the ribbon control, under active development.

WPF Control Verifier

WPF Control Verifier is a tool that verifies the correctness of WPF Controls. This tool is geared towards WPF Control developers with the goal of providing a set of verifications that...

Microsoft Surface 2.0 SDK and Runtime

With the Microsoft Surface 2.0 SDK, you can easily create applications to take advantage of the next generation Surface computing devices. The applications you create can be adapted...

Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

The Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 provides documentation, samples, header files, libraries, and tools designed to help you develop Windows applications using...

WPF Shell Integration Library

This is a set of utilities to help WPF applications take greater advantage of the Windows shell than is currently provided in the framework. The current v2 release has APIs for working...

WPF Toolkit

The WPF Toolkit is a collection of WPF features and components that are being made available outside of the normal .NET Framework ship cycle. The WPF Toolkit not only allows users...

Windows API Code Pack

Windows® API Code Pack for Microsoft® .NET Framework provides a source code library that can be used to access some features of Windows 7 and Windows Vista from managed code. Some of...

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