The following operating systems are supported for development and deployment

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2

• Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit

• Microsoft Windows Vista 64-bit (see the following note)

• Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit (see the following note)

• Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit

• Microsoft Windows XP

Important
The Lync SDK is installed in the %root%\program files (x86) folder. In Visual Studio, you set your custom application build platform target to "Any CPU" so that your application runs on either 32-bit or 64-bit operating systems.

The following requirements must be met before developing applications with Lync SDK

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or later service pack or Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RTM for Windows Forms or WPF development.

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RTM for Silverlight development.

• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 or later service pack

• Silverlight 4.0 runtime, installed with Microsoft Lync 2010

• Microsoft Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010

To deploy a Lync SDK application, application users must be able to sign in to Lync 2010, and the following components must be present on the target computer.

• Lync SDK redistributable components:

  • Microsoft.Office.uc.dll

  • Microsoft.Lync.Model.dll desktop version

  • Microsoft.Lync.Model.dll Silverlight version

• Lync 2010

• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 or 4.0