Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack发布了

[url=http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=D466226B-8DAB-445F-A7B4-448B326C48E7&displaylang=en]Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Release[/url]

在部署的时候需要在部署环境安装这个分发包：
[url=http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d5692ce4-adad-4000-abfe-64628a267ef0&displaylang=en&tm]Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Redistributable Package[/url]

[quote][b]Overview[/b]
This final release of the [b]Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack[/b] 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:
[list][*]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!
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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:
[list][*]Smart pointers
[*]Regular expression parsing
[*]New containers (tuple, array, unordered set, etc)
[*]Sophisticated random number generators
[*]Polymorphic function wrappers
[*]Type traits
[*]And more!
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[b][i]Note[/i][/b]: This feature pack does not include C99 compatibility or support for special math functions.[/quote]

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……