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I haven't had the chance to try the current version in the feature pack this week, but when you re-release vcredist_x86.exe, could you make sure that KB950683 is also resolved? (and maybe update the KB article to indicate such?)

Windows Server 20008?

The wrong processor thing is a good one, well done! Now I know why I always static link as much as I can :-)

Is this a problem with just VSRedist or is there a problem if you use the merge module in your own installation programs?

Wow, this is just ridiculous. How could you guys take months to release an MFC add-on that you licensed from a third party and *still* have this type of (incredibly amateurish) problem? What in the world have you folks been doing?

I'm starting to wonder if the MS VC++ library development team isn't comprised of three guys in a basement somewhere in Redmond.

BANG!

(the sound of your quality bar falling through the bottom of muddy pond)

Does this also affect the merge-modules?

No, the merge modules are not affected.

Thanks,

Ayman Shoukry

Mittlerweile ist das MFC Feature Pack und somit auch die TR1 Implementierung im finalen Release im Web

@yuguang: No need to move to C#, just get GCC and Eclipse for free and leave VC++ behind. Need a GUI builder? Get QT, integrates well into Eclipse.

As said before, the VC++ team isn't able anymore to release "must have" quality products.

I'm glad that I spent the last couple months porting making my app portable to POSIX systems rather than with new "technologies" from DevDiv.

I think it's pretty obvious that

C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\amd64_Microsoft.VC90.DebugMFC_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_9.0.30304.0_x-ww_8C1EB4FC\mfc90d.dll

itself was relocated to a different address range than usual, and that relocation put it in an address range that belongs to user32.dll.

So I think you don't need a repro.  No matter what reason there might be for any random system to relocate

C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\amd64_Microsoft.VC90.DebugMFC_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_9.0.30304.0_x-ww_8C1EB4FC\mfc90d.dll

or any of your other dlls, you need to make sure they will not interfere with user32.dll.

This pretty much supports the contention that you guys are clueless idiots.

Hello jiangsheng,

Crystal Reports are not required to install the patch. If you are still facing difficulty installing the patch, please log the issue at http://connect.microsoft.com

Thanks,

Ayman Shoukry

Things do wrong, and often at the worst of times. Thanks for keeping us all informed (via a publicly accessible forum). I'd rather hear bad news that could potentially save me time rather than no news.

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Steve

Ya aymen, is it possible to create an RTL arabic User interface using MFC Fetaure Pack ?

I feel for the team that owns this stuff, I'm sure there is a lot of heat coming down on them.  Hopefully the pressure won't keep them from innovating in the future.

The openness about the bugs is good. Since these deployment tools aren't rocket science it would be cool if these could be developed in the open so community members could either report direct problems with the source or implement fixes that could be vetted by the base team.  If the overhead of filtering the community input isn't too great this could lead to much better quality in the future.

Thank you Google!

Was in the middle of downloading 322MB for Vista dev environment and decided to search around for feedback/gotchas on this "release".

Caught this thread in time to abort.

Will come back next year to see how it worked out (if I am still doing Microsoft platform development then).

Sorry but the issue with the German OS *still* isn't resolved, even with the update from 04/22/08. With German regional settings, a 'unknown error' is thrown, with changed settings to English(USA), it says 'no product installed where update is applicable'. Very strange... Please do your homework again!

Hi Ayman,

the OS is XPSP2-GER with latest patches installed. VS2008 version is 21022.8-RTM-ENU with KB945273 & KB947886 applied. VS2005SP1 is installed as well.

A regional setting of 'German (Germany)' throws an 'unknown error' with the option to alert MS whereas the setting of any other German-speaking country (e.g. Austria, Switzerland) throws a different error, stating 'Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack has detected a problem and must be terminated'. With a non-German setting, the msg is 'no product installed where update is applicable'.

Steve

Hi Ayman,

after removing KB945273 & KB947886, installation was successful, but *only* with regional settings changed to English, even with your refresh dated 04/22/08. So it seems you should have another look at this issue. Anyway thanks for your promptly help.

Steve

I gotta agree with Joe. A lot of people may say a lot of bad things about MFC (personally I don't agree with the bulk of them), but CString is a brilliant class, so simple to use, it makes Unicode/MBCS issues very easy etc. It's IMHO the best string class around by a mile.

Please don't dump it!

Mike

The feature pack is a interesting extension to existing MFC.

With the release version new MFC classes are even merged in VS wizard, like the add new class wizard, although I can't find the Doc for them alongside the MSDN MFC reference sections.

Finally there is a note about the dialog editor.

People here already stated about the intellisense. personnally thirdparty plugins resolved that issues..but what about the dialog editor ?

is there an intention to make it as much intelligent as the form editor of WinForms ?

at least, one should no longer resort to the OnSize member of the dialog class to write the resizing mechanism of the child controls..