Visual Studio Lifecycle Policy Exceptions
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Visual Studio includes a collection of compilers, languages, runtimes, environments, and other resources that enable development for many Microsoft platforms. As a convenience to our Visual Studio customers, Visual Studio may install certain Microsoft SDKs and other Microsoft components that target and support those Microsoft platforms. These components may be licensed and supported under their own terms and policies.
External components that follow a lifecycle policy other than the Visual Studio policy
The following table lists the Microsoft platform components that may be included with Visual Studio (depending on the specific edition of the Visual Studio software), and which are subject to their own support policies and time frames.
| PRODUCT FAMILY | EXTERNAL NAME |
|---|---|
| .NET 3.5 | .NET 3.5 SDK Windows Identity Foundation |
| .NET 4.5 | .NET 4.5 SDK |
| .NET 4.5.1 | .NET 4.5.1 MT Pack (Classic) .NET 4.5.1 Multi-targeting Pack (Store) .NET 4.5.1 OOB MSU .NET 4.5.1 Redist .NET 4.5.1 Redist Language Packs .NET 4.5.1 SDK |
| ASP.NET Web Stack | ASP.NET MVC 4 ASP.NET MVC 5 ASP.NET Web API ASP.NET Web API 2 ASP.NET Web Pages 2 ASP.NET Web Pages 3 |
| Entity Framework 6 | Entity Framework 6 |
| Exchange 2013 | Exchange Web Services |
| Microsoft OWIN | Microsoft OWIN |
| Microsoft Web Developer Tools 2013 | Microsoft Web Developer Tools 2013 |
| Updates to these components are distributed via NuGet and do not follow standard Microsoft lifecycle policies. See https://docs.nuget.org/ for more information. | JSON Web Token Handler for the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 NuGet 2.7 SignalR Web Optimization Framework WebGrease |
| ODataLib | ODataLib |
| Office 2013 | Open XML SDK |
| Online Services Policy | Microsoft Ads SDK |
| SharePoint 2013 | SharePoint Client Component SharePoint Foundation 2013 Windows Identity Foundation Extensions |
| Silverlight 5 | Silverlight 5 Runtime Silverlight 5 SDK |
| SQL Server 2008 R2 | SQL System CLR Types (SQL Server 2008 R2) |
| SQL Server 2012 | DACFx (DACFramework) SMO (SharedManagementObjects) SQL Command Line Utilities SQL Language Service - IntelliSense (TSQLLanguageService) SQL LocalDB SQL Native Client (Sqlncli) SQL Server Express 2012 SP1 SQL System CLR Types (SQL Server 2012) SQLDOM |
| SQL Server 2014 | DACFx (DACFramework) SMO (SharedManagementObjects) SQL Command Line Utilities SQL Language Service - IntelliSense (TSQLLanguageService) SQL LocalDB SQL Native Client (Sqlncli) SQL Server Express 2014 SQL System CLR Types (SQL Server 2014) SQLDOM |
| SQL Server Compact Edition 4.0 | SQL Server Compact Edition 4.0 |
| WCF RIA Services v1.0 SP2 | WCF RIA Services v1.0 SP2 |
| Windows Server 2008 | Windows Web Services (WWS) for Windows Server 2008 |
| Windows 7 | Windows 7 SDK |
| Windows 8 | Windows 8 SDK |
| Windows 8.1 | Windows 8.1 SDK Windows Library for JavaScript (WinJS) |
| Microsoft Azure > See also: Online Lifecycle Policy |
Microsoft Azure Mobile Services SDK Microsoft Azure Mobile Services Tools |