The windows phone sdk 8.0 is a full-featured development environment to use for building apps and games for windows phone 8.0 and windows phone 7.5. the windows phone sdk provides a stand-alone visual studio express 2012 edition for windows phone or works as an add-in to visual studio 2012 professional, premium or ultimate editions.. The windows sdk for windows 10 contains headers, libraries, and tools you can use when you create apps that run on windows. by selecting the download link, or you can by select this version of the windows 10 sdk (10.0.17763.0) in the visual studio 15.8 installer optional components. previously released sdks and emulators, including.