Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack釋出了

[url=http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=D466226B-8DAB-445F-A7B4-448B326C48E7&displaylang=en]Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Release[/url]

在部署的時候需要在部署環境安裝這個分發包：

[url=http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d5692ce4-adad-4000-abfe-64628a267ef0&displaylang=en&tm]Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Redistributable Package[/url]

[quote][b]Overview[/b]

This final release of the [b]Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack[/b] extends the VC++ Libraries shipped with Visual Studio 2008 and is fully covered under Microsoft's standard support policies.

The VC++ 2008 MFC libraries have been extended to support creation of applications that have:

[list][*]Office Ribbon style interface

[*]Office 2007, Office 2003 and Office XP look and feel

[*]Modern Visual Studio-style docking toolbars and panes

[*]Fully customizable toolbars and menus

[*]A rich set of advanced GUI controls

[*]Advanced MDI tabs and groups

[*]And much more!

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This feature pack also includes an implementation of TR1. Portions of TR1 are scheduled for adoption in the upcoming C++0x standard as the first major addition to the ISO 2003 standard C++ library. Our implementation includes a number of important features such as:

[list][*]Smart pointers

[*]Regular expression parsing

[*]New containers (tuple, array, unordered set, etc)

[*]Sophisticated random number generators

[*]Polymorphic function wrappers

[*]Type traits

[*]And more!

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[b][i]Note[/i][/b]: This feature pack does not include C99 compatibility or support for special math functions.[/quote]

現在暫時隻對應英文版的Visual Studio 2008（哦，還好我裝了英文版的）。對其他語言版本的支援等到VS2008 SP1的時候會出來。

我很猶豫是裝還是不裝這個Feature Pack好。裡面有些東西我很想用，包括shared_ptr、regex等。但是下載下傳頁面裡的known issues說這個regex的實作還沒最優化，照這麼說的話以後肯定還會再出什麼更新檔來解決這些問題。既然是這樣我還是等等好了。

這Feature Pack裡最吸引我的果然還是Ribbon UI啊……