Microsoft Platform SDK
September 1998 Edition

Overview

The Microsoft^® Platform Software Development Kit (SDK) - September 1998 Edition provides developers with a single, easy-to-use location from which to download current and emerging Microsoft technologies and includes tools, headers, libs, and sample code for these technologies. The Platform SDK is the successor to the Win32 SDK, and includes components that have been distributed separately in the Win32 SDK, the BackOffice SDK, the ActiveX/Internet Client SDK, and the DirectX SDK, and continues to integrate additional SDKs on a regular basis.

This edition provides the build environment, samples, and information necessary to build applications for Microsoft^® Windows NT^® version 5.0 Beta 2, while maintaining support for Microsoft^® Windows NT^® version 4.0, Microsoft^® Windows 98, Microsoft^® Windows 95, BackOffice^® 4.0, and Microsoft^® Internet Explorer version 3.x and 4.x. The Platform SDK maintains support for current versions of the operating systems. It is possible to build applications that will run on Windows NT version 3.51. However, some of the Windows NT-specific tools in the SDK will not run correctly on Windows NT version 3.51.

Downloads

To get started, download the Platform SDK build environment  
(iBldEnv.exe or aBldEnv.exe). This provides you with the necessary environment for building applications that run on Windows NT version 4.0 and 5.0, and Windows 95 and Windows 98. We've split the rest of the Platform SDK into component groupings, including samples and additional developer tools, so that you can download only those parts that you want.

Microsoft Platform SDK Components

Below are links to some of the components that ship as part of the Microsoft Platform SDK:

Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI) 2.5 Beta 1 
BackOffice Developer's Guide Samples 
Broadcast Architecture 
Certificate Service 
COM Samples 
COM Tutorials 
DAO 3.5 
DirectX 6.0 Foundation 
DirectX 5.1 Media 
Image Color Management (ICM) 2.0 
Internet Chat Control 
Internet Information Server 4.0 
MAPI 
MDAC 2.1 (including ADO, ODBC, and OLE DB) 
Microsoft Agent 1.5 
Microsoft Cluster Services 
Microsoft Exchange Server 
Microsoft SDK for Java version 2.01 
Microsoft Management Console 
Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) 
Microsoft Routing and Remote Access Services 1.0 
Microsoft Transaction Server 2.0 
NetMeeting 2.1 
OpenGL 
Platform SDK Tools 
RPC 
Site Server 3.0 1.1 
Smart Card 1.0 
SNA Server 4.0 
SQL Server 6.5 
Systems Management Server 1.2 
TAPI 
Winsock 2.0 
Windows 95 and Windows 98 Migration DLLs 
WinDbg Debugger