Windows SDK installation results

[Heck]

Hi,

Installation of the latest 32 bit Windows SDK, in which I instructed
it to install the VC++ 9.0 compiler and associated tools, created a
directory "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0", with, it
seems to me, a lot of duplication of the contents of the Microsoft
Visual Studio 8 directory. In particular, it produced a VS IDE with a
C++ compiler apparently identical to the VS 2008's.

I haven't done a detailed file comparison of the hundreds of MB of the
two directories, but, instead, I'm asking you: Can anyone identify
what parts of the SDK are not redundant?

Thanks.

[Heck]

Apparently identical, to me not looking too carefully. In fact, the
SDK's IDE is 9.0.30729.1, whereas the VS 2008 SP1 IDE is
8.0.50727.762.

Perhaps I should just overwrite the VS 2008 directory with the SDK's
Visual Studio 9.0 directory. Would that combine the two directories
without breaking VS and the VC compiler?

Thanks

Post by Heck
Installation of the latest 32 bit Windows SDK, in which I instructed
it to install the VC++ 9.0 compiler and associated tools, created a
directory "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0", with, it
seems to me, a lot of duplication of the contents of the Microsoft
Visual Studio 8 directory. In particular, it produced a VS IDE with a
C++ compiler apparently identical to the VS 2008's.
I haven't done a detailed file comparison of the hundreds of MB of the
two directories, but, instead, I'm asking you: Can anyone identify
what parts of the SDK are not redundant?
Thanks.