Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack发布了

Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Release

在部署的时候需要在部署环境安装这个分发包：
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Redistributable Package

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Overview
This final release of the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack 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:

• 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!

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:

• Smart pointers
• Regular expression parsing
• New containers (tuple, array, unordered set, etc)
• Sophisticated random number generators
• Polymorphic function wrappers
• Type traits
• And more!

Note: This feature pack does not include C99 compatibility or support for special math functions.

现在暂时只对应英文版的Visual Studio 2008（哦，还好我装了英文版的）。对其他语言版本的支持等到VS2008 SP1的时候会出来。

我很犹豫是装还是不装这个Feature Pack好。里面有些东西我很想用，包括shared_ptr、regex等。但是下载页面里的known issues说这个regex的实现还没最优化，照这么说的话以后肯定还会再出什么补丁来解决这些问题。既然是这样我还是等等好了。

这Feature Pack里最吸引我的果然还是Ribbon UI啊……