El Bruno

Hi !

This week I posted a new video into my Coding4Fun channel in Channel 9. In the video everything works fine, however to get there I get tons of pain trying to install Lync 2013 SDK in Windows 10.

The first error was this one

Microsoft Lync 2013 SDK Setup Error

Microsoft Lync 2013 not found. Go here to download and install: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=248583

And makes sense, I’m not using Lync 2013, I’m using Skype for Business 2016. So I read this entry on MSDN forums, and I created the missing registry entries. Now the installer “thinks” that I have Lync 2013 installed.

And it was time to find a new error

Microsoft Lync 2013 SDK Setup Error

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SP1 or higher not found. Go here to download and install: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=248582

Which is so freaking cool! I’m using Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 15 Preview 2 to develop my app, however I need to trick the installer to find a Visual Studio 2010 instance.

After some tests, I realize that the best way to do this, was to install Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Isolated) Redistributable Package, which is the minimum Visual Studio package you can install.

Now, at the 3rd try, you’ll think that the installer should work but …

Microsoft Lync 2013 SDK Setup Warning

Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio not found. Go here to download and install: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=195083

Silverlight is a requirement!! (really, do you remember Silverlight?) This is an easy one … and a couple of minutes later I finally get my Microsoft Office Lync Software Development Kit installed on my dev machine !!!

Greetings @ Toronto

-El Bruno

References

• El Bruno, Coding4Fun Channel9
• Skype Developer Platform, https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/mt650889(v=office.16).aspx
• Microsoft Lync 2013 SDK, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36824
• Lync 2013 SDK installed failed , https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/Lync/en-US/bea9b334-e04c-4c57-9b25-e1e513e90b43/lync-2013-sdk-installed-failed?forum=communicatorsdk
• Error message when you install Lync 2013 SDK on a computer that is running Visual Studio 2013, https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2918796
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Isolated) Redistributable Package, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=1366
• Microsoft Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=18149
• Header, https://www.flickr.com/photos/cool_dry_place/524794828