Friday, November 21, 2025

Windows 10 SDK 10.0.20348.0 is gone

I was caught by surprise today after updating Visual Studio 2022 to version 17.14.11. All my projects failed to compile, because the SDK files disappeared. I first thought something broke with VS Code support, but then I saw that Visual Studio itself had the same problem.

Turns out the Windows SDK I was using – 10.0.20348.0 – was simply deprecated and removed in this update, according to here, and the release note itself. Indeed, Visual Studio Installer won’t show it anymore.

Apparently, now I’ll have to install a Windows 11 SDK, even if I’m running Windows 10. I hope this doesn’t break my stuff.

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