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Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

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re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Kevin — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:07:42 GMT

THE SP1 eats my disk over 2.5G

Is there a way to retrieve some space ?

re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Kim Gräsman — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:42:00 GMT

Hello,

> Alignment (packing) issues using the new

> MFC headers were fixed.

What were those issues, specifically? We've had our share of problems with inconsistent struct alignment, and the symptoms range from memory leaks to memory corruption.

We won't be able to install SP1, so do we need to use #pragma pack or similar as a workaround?

Thanks,

- Kim

re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

mario — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:57:58 GMT

It's possible to apply styles (CMFCVisualManager) to a CDialog?

thanks.

re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

john — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:36:52 GMT

Does the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 include C++ Feature Pack?

re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

GregM — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:47:41 GMT

"Here is a partial list of the issues that we addressed."

Where can we find the complete list?

re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

samsa — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:56:59 GMT

First of all: great news and great update! Congratulations and MFC rulz...

Besides: why VS still use different GDIPlus.dll version as Office Team?

thanks...

the Microsoft.VC90.CRT version in manifest

yuguang.hu — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:24:25 GMT

I found version in the \VC\redist\x86\Microsoft.VC90.CRT\Microsoft.VC90.CRT.manifest is 9.0.30729.1, but I created a new project and build, the release.exe's manifest version still 9.0.21022.8.

Why?

re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Ted. — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:12:17 GMT

yuguang.hu - read this blog entry

http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2008/05/15/vc-runtime-binding.aspx

the real solution for you is (which I'm happy to say actually works in SP1) is to:

#define _BIND_TO_CURRENT_VCLIBS_VERSION 1

near the top of your stdafx.h

re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Ted. — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:16:32 GMT

Kim: the packing issues referred to related to feature pack headers only, if you don't use the default alignment in your project. The workaround is to use

#pragma pack(push, _AFX_PACKING)

and

#pragma pack(pop)

around any place you include feature pack header files (e.g. afxcontrolbars.h), see

http://forums.msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/vcgeneral/thread/ba52a728-a9e3-4d8f-b327-21716332ce29/

for more info

re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

yuguang.hu — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:13:42 GMT

Ted:

very thanks, I just test it, it really works.

re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

yuguang.hu — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:45:59 GMT

I just read the http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2008/05/15/vc-runtime-binding.aspx and know more about this issue.

But I still think it's a bug.

Someone copy exe&dll&Microsoft.VC90.CRT to destination folder, in vs2k8 RTM, it works well, but in vs2k8 sp1, it would broken. If he copy the RTM's Microsoft.VC90.CRT, it will work. But, the old Microsoft.VC90.CRT has been overwritten!

So the poor guy must change all his project and add the #define _BIND_TO_CURRENT_VCLIBS_VERSION 1, it's really horrible.

Another scenario, a newbie install vs2k8 with sp1, he create a project with app wizard, he build, and copy the binary with folder Microsoft.VC90.CRT to a clean machine, he will very surprise it doesn't work!

re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Ted. — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:30:08 GMT

Yes, agreed Hu I think that at least the applocal situation should be emphasized in documentation, it's not obvious to a new users they have to use _BIND_TO_CURRENT_VCLIBS_VERSION if they want to use applocal.

Also you're right they don't leave the RTM versions of the applocal folders in the redist directories, in case you want to use them. So you have to manually "re-create" them by digging around in WinSxS or hope you have a backup from before installing SP1.

I don't consider these bugs, but almost all users will encounter this issue trying to use applocal.

by the way the old way (use SP1 versions by default) used to work in VC2005, you had to use _USE_RTM_VERSION to get it back to RTM. I think a lot of users will be surprised, if not confused by the new situation in 2008 SP1 (since many more people will be using 2008 SP1 than the 2008 feature pack. Consider the feature pack a "beta" test of this new approach :))

re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

SvenC — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:49:33 GMT

Hi Ted, Hi Hu,

I think the new default in VS2008 SP1 to make RTM binding default makes sense for many software companies as you can continue developing exe and dll modules with the new SP1 on your developer machine without the need to redistribute the SP1 crt/mfc to all your customer machines. So patching a current release is kept simple.

To make this easier to use/find it would be nice to have a switch in the project settings dialog for RTM/SP1 - or a combobox for RTM/SP1/SP2... who knows ;-)

SvenC

re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

FilaK — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:18:04 GMT

Really good work :)

I'm now porting some of my applications where I use combination of new MFC and OpenGL. Only problem is custom buttons for toolbars. In MSDN is mentioned the AFX_WM_RESETTOOLBAR, but I really can't figure out how to consume this message. I need some example code.

I can't find download link with samples for new MFC library.

Thanks.

re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Mo — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:13:18 GMT

I've installed SP1 to my VisualStudio 2008 RTM.

Where can I find MFC Feature Pack samples?

This file doesn't get updated by SP1 C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Samples\1033\AllVCLanguageSamples.zip

The Help, Samples and MSDN still link to 2008 RTM samples dated 11/30/2007.

re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Patrick — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:49:35 GMT

I allready filled a connect bug (ID 362127) for the samples.

Is there an easy way to get the samples? i don´t want to reinstall the sp1 but i did not find a single download of the samples.

re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

samsa — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:02:03 GMT

@Patrick

Yes, you can download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9761bb57-f066-4b70-9318-3965c5e68aad&DisplayLang=en

Greetz...

re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Rollo Tomasi — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:51:55 GMT

the installer requires a lot of space

the installer could be configurable, so we can select specific languages (C#, VC++, etc)

Question: Does this change the symbol files?

re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

chris — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:12:26 GMT

found a nasty bug: CMFCMenuBar::EnableHelpCombobox only works with SDI, MDI will disable the control

is there any way to enable the control manually? i tried to get the control and enable it via enablewindow(TRUE) but still no luck

re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

MFC — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:24:13 GMT

Not sure where to report bugs in the new MFC, but here's one in case someone is listening:

If docking is enabled on a frame before the status bar is created, it becomes possible to dock things underneath the status bar. When this happens, the resize gripper on the status bar no longer resizes the frame. It only resizes the client area of the status bar, which gets very glitchy. It is easily reproduced using the SetPaneSize sample. In OnCreate, move the call to EnableDocking above the creation of the status bar.

Cheers

re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

chris — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:01:15 GMT

InsertButton applied on CMFCMenuBar and CMFCToolbar will result in disabled controls in MDI mode too...

Visual Studio 2008 [SP1] and Vista SP1

Werner — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:50:17 GMT

I have a bug problem with VS2008 and Vista SP1:

Changing the source while the unmanaged/MFC application is interrupted crash and werfault.exe is creating a minidump.

It impossible to work reasonable.

I posted it on connect.microsoft.com in may 2008, but it was closed (not reproducable). I still have the problem on all Vista SP1 installations (even english ones!) and found today others with the same problem.

Can you say anything about this issue ? In May I sent a minidump with heap, today I debugged VS2008 on my own and found interessing hints.

re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Eric — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:05:40 GMT

I have installed VS2008 and SP1. But I still can't find any documentation about the prereleased feature pack.

This article (http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2008/04/07/visual-c-2008-feature-pack-released.aspx) said "The documentation for this feature pack has already been added to MSDN online and will be included with the local MSDN documentation with SP1."

Is it the problem of SP1 or my installation of SP1?

re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Eric — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:15:25 GMT

I mean I cannot find MFC feature pack documenation on my local machine. When I press F1 for the help of MFC feature pack class, MSDN still downloads help from Microsoft MSDN website.

re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Eric — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:16:32 GMT

I mean I cannot find MFC feature pack documenation on my local machine. When I press F1 for the help of MFC feature pack class, MSDN still downloads help from Microsoft MSDN website.

re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

samsa — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:18:34 GMT

@Eric

You need to install MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008 SP1: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7bbe5eda-5062-4ebb-83c7-d3c5ff92a373&DisplayLang=en

Greetz...

re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

SvenC — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:28:53 GMT

@eric:

In addition to samsa, you must set tools->options->help->online to local first or only. Otherwise online content will be prefered.

SvenC

re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Marc — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:49:03 GMT

(maybe twice...?)

I'v been trying to download the MSDN Library for VS2008 SP1 for a few days now. But after several moments I'm only getting a file of about 3kB in size instead of the full download of approx 2.15GB!

Does anyone has the same problem or can someone at Microsoft please fix this problem? (I am able to download other huge files like MSDN Library VS2008 non-SP1).

Marc

re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

kamol — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:34:31 GMT

There are still some bugs left in toolbar rendering.

One of them can be reproduced by turning to large icons and enabling Customize buttons on toolbars. The gluphs on the buttons are scaled up and the result looks really bad. The same happens with CMFCToolberMenuButton and its arrow.

The cause is CMenuImages class which loads glyph images from resources in size 9x9 and scales them if larger images are required. It should use another set of images instead of scaling small ones.

The worst thing is that it cannot be fixed without recompiling MFC, because there is no way to change this behavior "from outside".

re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Tim — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:33:23 GMT

I'm building an MFC DLL, using VS2008 SP1 but

the compiler is ignoring my _BIND_TO_CURRENT_VCLIBS_VERSION=1 preprocessor directive (I've defined it in the project properties and checked that it's inherited by the cpp files). I've tried defining the _BIND_TO_CURRENT_MFC_VERSION=1 and _BIND_TO_CURRENT_CRT_VERSION=1 symbols, but that doesn't work either.

As a result the embedded manifest references the old 9.0.21022.8 version of Microsoft.VC90.CRT instead of the new 9.0.30729.1 version, which breaks our Vista installation :(

I heard there were some issues with MFC DLLs, but thought they were fixed with SP1. Does anyone have any suggestions or links that could help?

Thanks

re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Shane Macaulay — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:12:22 GMT

Did you use #pragma comment style manifest declaration's to specify dependencies, or did you build the XML yourself?

I've found that the #pragma's work best in my build env. Project properties were more difficult for me to manage and remember ;)

re: Bugs fixed in MFC in Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Tim — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:16:25 GMT

Thanks. My experience of using #pragmas has been that I just got both versions as dependencies in the embedded manifest.

I think I have solved the problem by including the line:

#pragma comment(linker, "/include:__forceCRTManifestCUR")

at the top of my StdAfx.h. I don't know why the _BIND_TO_CURRENT_VCLIBS_VERSION flag wasn't working (like I said, I've heard that MFC DLLs are quirky), but this seems to do the trick! Hope this helps someone out there :o)