{"id":5083,"date":"2008-04-07T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T08:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vcblog\/2008\/04\/07\/visual-c-2008-feature-pack-released\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T18:54:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T18:54:09","slug":"visual-c-2008-feature-pack-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/visual-c-2008-feature-pack-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Released!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The final release of the Visual C++<\/span> 2008 Feature Pack is now available for download.  This release provides several exciting features for C++ developers, such as a major update to MFC and an implementation of TR1.  These features are fully covered under Microsoft’s standard support policies.  <\/font><\/p>\n

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The Feature Pack is available free of charge to any Visual Studio 2008 Standard or above customer. The download can be found at http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyId=D466226B-8DAB-445F-A7B4-448B326C48E7&displaylang=en<\/font><\/a>. <\/span>  <\/font><\/p>\n

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Using the included MFC components, developers can create applications with the “look & feel” of Microsoft’s most popular products – Microsoft Office, Visual Studio and Internet Explorer.  Some of the interesting MFC components in the Feature Pack include:<\/font><\/p>\n

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·<\/font>         <\/span><\/span><\/span>Office 2007 Ribbon Bar:  Ribbon, Pearl, Quick Access Toolbar, Status Bar, etc.<\/p>\n

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·<\/font>         <\/span><\/span><\/span>Office 2003 and XP look:  Office-style toolbars and menus, Outlook-style shortcut bar, print preview, live font picker, color picker, etc.<\/p>\n

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·<\/font>         <\/span><\/span><\/span>Visual Studio look:  sophisticated docking functionality, auto hide windows, property grids, MDI tabs, tab groups, etc.<\/p>\n

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·<\/font>         <\/span><\/span><\/span>Internet Explorer look:  Rebars and task panes<\/p>\n

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·<\/font>         <\/span><\/span><\/span>Vista theme support<\/p>\n

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·<\/font>         <\/span><\/span><\/span>“On the fly” menus and toolbar customization:  users can customize the running application through live drag and drop of menu items and toolbar buttons<\/p>\n

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·<\/font>         <\/span><\/span><\/span>Shell management classes:  use these classes to enumerate folders, drives and items, browse for folders and more<\/p>\n

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More information on our new MFC support can be found at the sites below:<\/font><\/p>\n

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       MFC documentation & walkthroughs   http:\/\/msdn2.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/bb982354.aspx<\/font><\/a> <\/span><\/font><\/font>  <\/font> <\/font><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

       Channel 9: New Updates to MFC          <\/font>https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/showpost.aspx?postid=355087<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

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TR1 (“Technical Report 1”) is a set of proposed additions to the C++0x standard.  <\/span>Our implementation of TR1 contains a number of important features such as smart pointers, regular expression parsing, containers (tuple, array, unordered set, etc) and sophisticated random number generators.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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More information on TR1 can be found at the sites below:<\/font><\/p>\n

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       TR1 documentation                        http:\/\/msdn2.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/bb982198.aspx<\/a><\/font><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

       Channel 9: Digging into TR1           <\/font>https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/showpost.aspx?postid=385821<\/font><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n

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       TR1 slide decks (recommended)    <\/font>http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vcblog\/archive\/2008\/02\/22\/tr1-slide-decks.aspx<\/font><\/a>            <\/font><\/p>\n

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This Feature Pack is only supported on systems which have the English language (ENU) version of Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition or above installed. Support for systems with non-English versions of Visual Studio 2008 installed will be available with Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. <\/p>\n

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The documentation for this feature pack has already been added  <\/span>to MSDN online and will be included with the local MSDN documentation with SP1.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Enjoy all this new functionality!<\/font><\/p>\n

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Thanks,<\/font><\/p>\n

Visual C++ Development Team<\/font><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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