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The Microsoft Visual Studio Ecosystem team has officially launched the new Visual Studio Gallery site at http://visualstudiogallery.com/. This new web site is a resource center for all Visual Studio extensions and includes everything from free VS PowerToys like tools to VSIP products. Any developer can post information and a link for their Visual Studio extensions. The goal for this website is to give developers an easy way to find extensions for Visual Studio. Visual Studio extensions might include products and free applications in the form of macros, add-ins, packages, project templates, or other types of extensions to Visual Studio that are packaged up and ready to use by the developer to improve their development experience.

See also the announcement on the VSX Team Blog.

Last weekend I went to Belgrade (Serbia) with some friends. We went by car and the first thing we noticed when driving in Serbia is that almost all streetnames on the streets are written using the cyrillic alphabet, however, all the streetnames on streetmaps are written using the latin alphabet. So, even when you are standing in front of a plate with a streetname on, it’s sometimes difficult to find that streetname on our streetmap … But, we found our hotel after driving around in Belgrade for a while

Someone from Belgrade has shown us around a bit and also told us that we should come back in the summer because it’s much nicer then … obviously

I didn’t take a lot of pictures, basically only from the Belgrade Fortress which is pretty nice. Below is a view of the Danub (Donau) taken from the Belgrade Fortress.

A view of the wall surrounding the fortress:

When entering the fortress, you can see several tanks on display…

Maybe a bit late, but for those who missed the announcement, Microsoft has released a beta of the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack.

The Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack extends the VC++ Libraries shipped with Visual Studio 2008.New MFC features include:

• 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. The following feature are currently supported:

• 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.

Download the beta.