Windows Home Server Vail SDK

Do you want to develop some add-ins for the new version of Windows Home Server? If the answer is yes, then you are going to need the SDK.

Along with the public release of the beta for Vail this week, came the news that non of the existing WHS V1 add-ins will work with Vail.

So developers will have to start from scratch and will need the new WHS Vail SDK (Software Developement Kit).

The SDK provides the following content:

• API references that help you understand all the API elements that can be used to extend and manage Windows Server Code Name “Vail”
• How-to documents that help you to understand how to build add-ins
• Templates that help you build add-ins with Visual Studio 2008
• Samples that provide examples of complete add-ins

You need to download both files, well ok, you don’t, but you are supposed to read the Licence Terms document:

Along with all the SDK files, there is a 9 page Getting Started guide.

You can download the Windows Home Server Vail SDK from here: https://connect.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeServer/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=28277

So are you going to develop an add-in for Vail? If so, let us know, we would love to hear from you.