With this information (v14.xx), go to Individual components and search for v14.xx. To find the latest version of MSVC installed on your system, in Visual Studio Installer go to workload page, on the right pane under installation details, expand Desktop development with C++ and locate the MSVC v142 - VS 2019 C++ 圆4/x86 build tools (V14.xx) - note where xx should be the highest version available. To locate these items, you will need to know the latest version of MSVC installed on your system. Additionally, developing drivers for ARM/ARM64/ARM64EC require the build tools for these architectures to also be installed with Visual Studio. WDK has Spectre mitigation enabled by default but requires Spectre mitigated libraries to be installed with Visual Studio for each architecture you are developing for. If the default SDK is not the version of the SDK that is compatible with the Windows 11 WDK (22000.1), please use the SDK download link in step 2 below. The Windows 11 Software Development Kit (SDK) is automatically included and is displayed in the right-hand Summary pane.
When you install Visual Studio 2019, select the Desktop development with C++ workload.
The following editions of Visual Studio 2019 support driver development for this release: For more information about system requirements for Visual Studio, see Visual Studio 2019 System Requirements. For details, see Installing preview versions of the Windows Driver Kit (WDK). To use Visual Studio 2022 to develop and test drivers, download the preview version of the kit. Visual Studio 2022 is not supported by the Windows 11 WDK.