Published
Tuesday, January 08, 2008 8:44 AM
by
martin
In my job nowadays I seem to work almost exclusively with managed code, but I do try to keep up a healthy interest in native code development. I was therefore interested to discover that a Beta is available for the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack. This is an add-on for Visual C++ 2008, so you'll already need to have that installed.
Perhaps the biggest news in this Feature Pack is a major refresh of MFC. I last used MFC in a 16-bit Windows application about 12 years ago. So much has happened since then that I was surprised (pleasantly) to find that we were working on an update. The update appears to include support for Office Ribbon-style UI. I haven't checked it out myself, but that's an interesting thing to include.
Also in the Feature Pack is an implementation of TR1, some parts of which might be included in the C++0x standard.
Usual warnings and caveats about installing Beta software apply, but you can nevertheless download the Beta here.
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