ToolLocationHelper.GetPathToWindowsSdkFile Method (String, TargetDotNetFrameworkVersion, VisualStudioVersion, DotNetFrameworkArchitecture)

Note: This API is now obsolete.

Returns the path to a file in the Windows SDK for the desired .NET Framework and Visual Studio version and the desired architecture. Note that this is only supported for a targeted .NET Framework version of 4.5 and above.

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Namespace:  Microsoft.Build.Utilities
Assembly:  Microsoft.Build.Utilities.Core (in Microsoft.Build.Utilities.Core.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
<ObsoleteAttribute("Consider using GetPlatformSDKLocationFile instead")> _
Public Shared Function GetPathToWindowsSdkFile ( _
    fileName As String, _
    version As TargetDotNetFrameworkVersion, _
    visualStudioVersion As VisualStudioVersion, _
    architecture As DotNetFrameworkArchitecture _
) As String

[ObsoleteAttribute("Consider using GetPlatformSDKLocationFile instead")]
public static string GetPathToWindowsSdkFile(
    string fileName,
    TargetDotNetFrameworkVersion version,
    VisualStudioVersion visualStudioVersion,
    DotNetFrameworkArchitecture architecture
)

[ObsoleteAttribute(L"Consider using GetPlatformSDKLocationFile instead")]
public:
static String^ GetPathToWindowsSdkFile(
    String^ fileName, 
    TargetDotNetFrameworkVersion version, 
    VisualStudioVersion visualStudioVersion, 
    DotNetFrameworkArchitecture architecture
)

[<ObsoleteAttribute("Consider using GetPlatformSDKLocationFile instead")>]
static member GetPathToWindowsSdkFile : 
        fileName:string * 
        version:TargetDotNetFrameworkVersion * 
        visualStudioVersion:VisualStudioVersion * 
        architecture:DotNetFrameworkArchitecture -> string

public static function GetPathToWindowsSdkFile(
    fileName : String, 
    version : TargetDotNetFrameworkVersion, 
    visualStudioVersion : VisualStudioVersion, 
    architecture : DotNetFrameworkArchitecture
) : String

Parameters

• fileName
  Type: System.String

  The name of the file being requested.

• version
  Type: Microsoft.Build.Utilities.TargetDotNetFrameworkVersion

  Target .NET Framework version.

• visualStudioVersion
  Type: Microsoft.Build.Utilities.VisualStudioVersion

  Version of Visual Studio associated with the requested SDK.

• architecture
  Type: Microsoft.Build.Utilities.DotNetFrameworkArchitecture

  Desired architecture of the resultant file.

Return Value

Type: System.String
Path to the appropriate Windows SDK file

.NET Framework Security

• Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see dd66cd4c-b087-415f-9c3e-94e3a1835f74.

See Also

Reference

ToolLocationHelper Class

GetPathToWindowsSdkFile Overload

Microsoft.Build.Utilities Namespace