Technical requirements
To build applications with the Windows App SDK, you will need the following:
- A computer with the latest version of Windows 10 or Windows 11.
- Visual Studio 2022 with the following workloads:
- Universal Windows Platform (UWP) development
- .NET desktop development
- Desktop development with C++
- The Windows SDK version 2004 (build 19041) or later. This SDK will be installed with Visual Studio when you enable the UWP development workload.
- The .NET 6 SDK. This SDK will be installed together with Visual Studio when you enable the .NET Framework desktop development workload.
- The Visual Studio extension for the Windows App SDK (if you are using Visual Studio 2022 Update 1 or later, it will already be included).
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