   DirectX SDK x Win2000 ?
  Hi, Im having lots of trouble triing to figure things out..Heres my doubts:-----After the "(summer 2004) Directx SDK", directx sdks stop being available for win2000..So, what this really means? This mean the others( newer ) sdks wont WORK on win2000 or this just means the INSTALLER will not work on win2000?Im asking that cause I saw some stuff about installing some newer sdks by other ways ( command lines ...)----So, what should I do, I have win2000 pro, what sdk I should download?What happens if I install the last SDK that isnt supported for win2000?   
  Usually with Microsoft "not supported" means "it might work, but if it doesn't don't complain to us about it".Have you tried installing one of the newer SDK's yourself?   ;  Nope..Im getting hard times with this new "genuine validation of hell" needed for download..I dont know whats happening, since I can do windows updates, I guess I should be able to make this validation, but I cant even install it..I searched for the file ( dxsdk_sum2004.exe ) and found it somewhere else, it installed ok( at least it looks fine, the utility programs  and docs are all ok )..I dont know..I kind insecure about installing the new ones and get in trouble..(and its ~500MB , it takes lots of time to me, its a pain <_<", today everything I did was try to download and install the damn sdk, finnaly I did )Do you think I should try install the newers ?   ;  If memory serves, the February 2007 SDK was the last one that allowed install on Win2K although it wasn't supported. April '07 was the first one where the installer actually wouldn't continue if it detected Win2K.It's all the SDK though, and not the core DirectX runtime - developers have to use WinXP and later these days.YMMV but I suspect you won't get very far with recent SDK's. Unzipping the download and grabbing the headers/libs will be fine but I doubt any of the tools will work - changes in the compilers, runtimes and PSDK's will probably stop you.hthJack   ;  I will stay with the summer's 2004 SDK, at least while its giving me no problems..Now can someone help me with symbols stuff? I downloaded the symbols update for that SDK, but I dont know how to use it..I saw some faq about it, it explains how to set your solution project ( .net) to use the symbols, but I didnt find those configurations on my Visual Studio 2005 pro..What I have to do to use those symbols? And how I will notice they are actually being used?   