Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Beta

re: Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Beta

Greg — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:19:21 GMT

Hello, I found a case sensitivity bug in this version of the feature pack and I have simplified it down to very simple and small reproducible code and regex's:

std::tr1::wregex rx(L"^[a-z]$", (std::tr1::regex::flag_type)(std::tr1::regex_constants::ECMAScript | std::tr1::regex_constants::icase));

ASSERT(std::tr1::regex_match((LPCWSTR)"A", rx));

re: Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Beta

vcblog — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:49:06 GMT

# re: Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Beta Thursday, April 03, 2008 9:37 PM by jwang

> Is there a release date set for MFC Feature Pack?

It is now released, see here for details: http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2008/04/07/visual-c-2008-feature-pack-released.aspx

Thanks

Damien

re: Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Beta

jwang — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:37:59 GMT

Is there a release date set for MFC Feature Pack?

MFC Feature Pack provides the tools we need to modernize our MFC-based application. It is extremely crucial for us to ship it with the new capability powered by VC++ Feature Pack. I will be very appreciative if someone could provide some insight on the release schedule.

Thanks.

re: Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Beta

Stephan T. Lavavej [MSFT] — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:55:59 GMT

[Jim Lamb]

> It's great to see MSVC incorporating TR1 though, to be fair,

> most serious C++ developers have been using the boost libraries

> to get these features for a very long time.

There's nothing stopping you from continuing to use Boost, and indeed Boost contains many things that aren't in TR1. Of course, VC9 TR1 has some advantages:

1. Lower build-related activation energy; after you've installed the Feature Pack (or SP1, etc.), you can immediately use TR1. With Boost, you have to build it (at least if you want to use its separately compiled libraries like Boost.Regex) and then get it picked up by your build system.

2. Lower lawyer-related activation energy; many companies worry about using open-source software. It doesn't even matter if such worries are justified or not, if you're a programmer who has to deal with your company's legal department.

3. Debugger integration; the Visual Studio IDE (devenv) will visualize basically all TR1 types, with fancy previews like "shared_ptr {x=5,y=12} [3 strong refs, 1 weak ref]". Manually decoding the representations of Boost/TR1 types is not fun. There's actually nothing stopping Boost from writing their own visualizers, but at the very least you'd have to hack your autoexp.dat.

4. Higher performance (theoretically); STL containers will avoid copying TR1 types whenever possible, instead preferring to swap them. Again, there's nothing actually stopping Boost from implementing this optimization, although it relies on nonportable knowledge of VC's STL internals.

> What's the plan for incorporating TR2?

TR2 isn't even finished yet. (Currently, the only library proposed for TR2 is the wonderful Boost.Filesystem library.) When it's finished, I'll be the first person bouncing up and down, proposing that we implement it.

> Are there any plans to develop a new UI framework that follow the

> TR1 naming conventions and makes better use of generic programming?

I'd like to do that someday. Note that it's a hard problem; there is still no Boost.UI.

Stephan T. Lavavej

Visual C++ Libraries Developer

re: Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Beta

Pat Brenner — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:36:21 GMT

Hi Jonas,

If you've found bugs in the MFC wizards using the Feature Pack Beta, could you please log them using Connect?

Thanks!

Pat Brenner

Visual C++ Libraries Development

re: Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Beta

Jonas — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:41:26 GMT

I'm having some trouble using the new project wizards. For example, a file named toolbar_256.bmp (IIRC) is not included here. I think I saw some other bug too, in that an empty Window menu was attempted to be created in the .rc file, but that's not allowed by Visual Studio.

Anyway, those things are sort of expected in betas. Otherwise, fixing up those post-wizard errors manually, things have been working pretty well!

re: Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Beta

Jim Lamb — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:08:52 GMT

It's great to see MSVC incorporating TR1 though, to be fair, most serious C++ developers have been using the boost libraries to get these features for a very long time. What's the plan for incorporating TR2?

Are there any plans to develop a new UI framework that follow the TR1 naming conventions and makes better use of generic programming? It's nice to see to see controls like the ribbon, but MFC was getting long in the tooth 5 years ago. Isn't it time for a new, streamlined UI framework with a richer design-time experience?

re: Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Beta

Mark Gordon — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:29:33 GMT

Any idea when we are going to have Visual UI control inheritance in Visual Studio 2008? I believe that is a feature of FoxPro ...

Mark

http://dotbloat.blogspot.com/

Support du TR1 dans Visual Studio 2008

Noticias externas — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:37:40 GMT

Soma annonce sur son blog le support du TR1 dans Visual Studio 2008 . Vous pouvez télécharger la béta

re: Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Beta

Ayman Shoukry — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:10:47 GMT

Hello James,

Folks on the C++ team are currently looking into the installation issues. We discovered the reason for such issues and are investigating the appropriate actions.

Thanks in advance for your patience. We will make sure to communicate the result of the investigation.

Thanks,

Ayman Shoukry

Visual C++ Team