Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Released : MFC 9.0.30411

Overview 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 MFC application wizard has also been upgraded to support the new features - including a check-box to select whether the application will use the Ribbon or the Visual Studio 2005 user interface elements. Feature pack is available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D466226B-8DAB-445F-A7B4-448B326C48E7&displaylang=en.]

I) The MFC Feature Pack library supports new features in the following areas: · 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! Click http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb984556.aspx II) This feature pack also includes an implementation of TR1*. · Smart pointers · Regular expression parsing · New containers (tuple, array, unordered set, etc) · Sophisticated random number generators · Polymorphic function wrappers · Type traits · And more click http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb982198.aspx

Office Fluent UI The new UI, including the Office Fluent Ribbon, provides improved context menus, enhanced screen tips, a Mini toolbar, and keyboard shortcuts that help to improve user efficiency and productivity. The new Office Fluent UI is implemented in several applications in the 2007 Microsoft Office suite, including Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word. Office Fluent UI Licensing: The Ribbon functionality and MS Office 2007 Visual Styles included in this Feature Pack are subject to the license. These include a requirement to adhere to Microsoft UI Design Guidelines, and a prohibition against using such a UI in applications which compete with Microsoft applications. The license is provided at no cost. It is a royalty-free license. License terms to copy, use or distribute the Fluent UI are available separately More about UI Design Guidelines and Licensing : http://SenAPI.4shared.com/

*Technical Report 1 (TR1) is a draft document specifying additions to the C++ Standard Library such as regular expressions, smart pointers, hash tables, and random number generators. TR1 is not yet standardized, but likely will be part of the next official standard mostly as it stands now. Much of it is available in Boost.