1. i haven't been able to find resource view in Express Edition of VC++, is it there somwhere or not
2. Is there a place where i could compare all the different editions side by side somewhere
3. this quite doesn't belong here i guess, as it's about PSDK, but i'll ask it anyway, is it possible to develop applications to XP SP1 with the most recent version of PSDK (latest should be: WindowsR Server 2003 SP1 Platform SDK) and Express Edition of VC++
Some questions about limitations of Express Edition
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Some questions about limitations of Express Edition
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1. Sorry, resource editing is not available for the Express. If you need to edit resources, you either need to find some free resource editing tools (eg. XN resource editor), or buy one of the higher Visual studios (comparison available here). You can still compile existing .rc files (just not edit them, except by hand).
2. see Q1 for link. And also look here.
3. Yes. This is a quote from the start page of the PSDK (Getting Started -> Introduction):
"This edition of the Platform SDK documentation provides information required to develop applications that can be run on the following target platforms:
Windows Server 2003
64-bit versions of Windows
Windows XP
Windows 2000
Windows NT 4.0
Windows Me, Windows 98, and Windows 95
For more information about which operating system, service pack, or redistributable is required to use a particular API, see the API documentation."
Note, that this is currently the only PSDK edition that works with Visual Studio 2005 (I can't remember the exact link, but I recall somewhere in the newsgroups that older PSDKs were incompatible with VS2005).
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