Surface SDK on Vista/Windows 7 - x64
Yesterday i got a copy of the Surface SDK and tried to install it on my machine, only to find out that it doesn’t support 64-bit systems. Fortunately, i found a solution to this problem on another blog and i post the links here for more people to see:
- Surface SDK 1.0
- Surface SDK 1.0 with SP1
Here is a screenshot of my first Surface application :) An RSS feed reader for http://www.studentguru.gr/blogs :
Update: If you download the Surface SDK from the MSDNAA, you most probably will get a file ‘en_surface_sdk_1_0_x86.exe’. When you run this .exe file, the .msi file you need to patch, gets extracted on your %temp% folder. So basically, go to Start->Run, type "%temp%" and the temp folder will come up. Delete all files or Sort them by date and then run the en_surface_sdk_1_0_x86.exe file. You will see a file named "22353a6.msi" (at least that was the name on my machine), that's the file you need ;) Copy it to another folder, and patch it using the guide.