> Apparently via Google you found a good explanation of the Dev Kit. Gee, maybe the Microsoft Web pages should have given the links you found!
It's literally the same link as the very first one in the body of article this comment thread is about.
> The Microsoft Web pages kept promising to tell me what was in the kit, product, offering, box, unit, device, whatever. Sooo, I kept clicking, thinking that maybe I just missed the Web page that actually explained what the Dev Kit was.
As ripley12 says, there's a 'Tech Specs' tab (I realize that 'tab' might be a new concept for you, but if you'll go to that page and scroll down a little bit you'll see a section that looks like |Overview | Tech Specs | FAQ| and each of those is a 'tab')
> for most of this still I have no actual source and am just guessing. NONE of that was at all clear
In addition to the 'Tech Specs' tab there is a 'FAQ' tab. As you might know, this stands for 'Frequently Asked Questions' ('frequently' means 'often'). In there you will see a list of questions with ">" symbols next to them (this ">" does not mean that they are less than some value, it's just a typographical symbol).
The first of those (when read from top to bottom) is "What are some of the specific challenges Windows Dev Kit 2023 will help solve for developers? "
If you 'click', with your 'mouse', on that it will reveal (which means 'to show which was hidden'), and the revealed text reads:
Today, if a developer wants to build an app that targets Arm, they generally write their code and build the app binaries on a x64 Windows PC, and then copy the built binaries over to an Arm device upon which to run or test the app. If they need to debug the app, they have to hookup a remote debugging session from their x64 PC.
Windows Dev Kit 2023, as an Arm-powered device powered by the Snapdragon® 8cx Gen 3 compute platform, will enable Windows developers to build, test and debug Arm-native apps alongside all their favorite productivity tools, including Visual Studio, Windows Terminal, WSL, VSCode, Microsoft Office and Teams.
I realize there are a lot of words there, but sometimes in this industry we have to read them.
It's literally the same link as the very first one in the body of article this comment thread is about.
> The Microsoft Web pages kept promising to tell me what was in the kit, product, offering, box, unit, device, whatever. Sooo, I kept clicking, thinking that maybe I just missed the Web page that actually explained what the Dev Kit was.
As ripley12 says, there's a 'Tech Specs' tab (I realize that 'tab' might be a new concept for you, but if you'll go to that page and scroll down a little bit you'll see a section that looks like |Overview | Tech Specs | FAQ| and each of those is a 'tab')
> for most of this still I have no actual source and am just guessing. NONE of that was at all clear
In addition to the 'Tech Specs' tab there is a 'FAQ' tab. As you might know, this stands for 'Frequently Asked Questions' ('frequently' means 'often'). In there you will see a list of questions with ">" symbols next to them (this ">" does not mean that they are less than some value, it's just a typographical symbol).
The first of those (when read from top to bottom) is "What are some of the specific challenges Windows Dev Kit 2023 will help solve for developers? "
If you 'click', with your 'mouse', on that it will reveal (which means 'to show which was hidden'), and the revealed text reads:
Today, if a developer wants to build an app that targets Arm, they generally write their code and build the app binaries on a x64 Windows PC, and then copy the built binaries over to an Arm device upon which to run or test the app. If they need to debug the app, they have to hookup a remote debugging session from their x64 PC.
Windows Dev Kit 2023, as an Arm-powered device powered by the Snapdragon® 8cx Gen 3 compute platform, will enable Windows developers to build, test and debug Arm-native apps alongside all their favorite productivity tools, including Visual Studio, Windows Terminal, WSL, VSCode, Microsoft Office and Teams.
I realize there are a lot of words there, but sometimes in this industry we have to read them.