To ensure a successful installation of the Phoenix SDK, review the following information before installation and complete the Installation Procedure in the order listed.

Installation Procedure:

1. If present, uninstall previous versions of the Phoenix RDK, SDK or CDK.
2. If present, uninstall previous version of Microsoft Visual Studio.
3. Install Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 or the free Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition. If you use the express versions, you may find it useful to install both the C++ and the C# express editions.
4. Install the Microsoft Phoenix SDK Pre-release

Previous Phoenix Versions
If you already have any version of the Phoenix RDK (or SDK, or CDK) on your system, you must uninstall it before installing the new SDK.

Visual Studio 2008
This version of the Phoenix SDK requires Visual Studio 2008 during installation. Make sure Visual Studio 2008 is installed before you install the Phoenix SDK. If you have any previous version of Visual Studio, we recommend using the uninstall tool before installing Visual Studio 2005. You must uninstall previous version of the Phoenix RDK (or SDK, or CDK) before you uninstall Visual Studio 2005. After uninstalling Visual Studio, you will be unable to uninstall the Phoenix SDK. You will be unable to install the new Phoenix SDK unless the old SDK/RDK has been removed.

• With an MSDN subscription, you can download Microsoft Visual studio from the MSDN Web site.
• Alternatively you can download the free Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition.

Disclaimer
The Phoenix SDK is a version of a project that is in active development at Microsoft. Phoenix is not complete nor fully tested. You should not use Phoenix in a production environment. You should understand that Phoenix will be changing in the future and there is no intent to provide backwards compatibility or support for Phoenix. This is a tool under development and we are giving non-commercial users of the tool access, but it should not be considered product quality.

Non-Commercial Use
Access to Phoenix is granted only for non-commercial use and non-commercial users. The intent of access to Phoenix is to evaluate its suitability for advancing software research and instruction in computer science; it is not intended for building or evaluating suitability for any commercial purpose. If you are interested in the Commercial Development Kit (CDK), please email our Commercial Partner alias at phxcp@microsoft.com.

Download Phoenix
The latest SDK are available in the downloads page.