Preview WDK 10.0.16257 does not install with VS 2017 Release

[Pavel A]

I"ve tried to install the insider preview WDK 10.0.16257 as described here, on Windows 8.1 64-bit (Lenovo laptop)



Result: no go.

Steps:

1. VS 2017 Community Edition already was installed, with C++ workload.
ARM toolkit not installed.
The VS version is 15.2 (26430.16) Relelase (not a "preview").


2. Disable strong name validation
- The reg commands completed successfully.

3. Mounted the SDK Insider Preview ISO image and installed.
Success, no errors or warnngs.

4. Mounted the WDK Insider Preview ISO image and installed.

Success, no errors or warnngs.

However, this did not occur:
"During installation you will see the Visual Studio installer install the WDK Visual Studio Extensions."

(note: did *not* check the "Learn more about Windows driver kit" checkbox, clicked on CLOSE. )

5.
Started the VS2017, no traces of WDK are in the IDE.
No project templates, no "DRIVERS" in the main IDE menu.

6.
Run the Visual Studio installer, tried to Modify the VS2017 Community.
Nothing related to the WDK is visible there.
The Win10 SDK and WDK version 10.0.16257 are not visible in the list of individual components.

Is there anything else that may work on Win8.1, or it requires Windows 10?


Regards,

-- pa

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