I have followed the posts on downloading feature pack C++ MFC samples and nothing has worked for me.

I've installed :
Visual Studio 2008 Profession -> Visual Studio Profession MSDN -> Visual Studio 2008 Professional SP1 -> Visual Studio 2008 MSDN SP1 and several attempts from different directions to get feature pack samples that always end up at the vc_samples.exe program that never contain the Feature Pack Samples. (Ive also tried variations in the order, uninstalling, reinstalling, etc without any luck).
They are never in my C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.9\Samples\1033 folder or down below..\AllCLanguageSamples\C++\MFC as some posts imply.

Does anyone know where these samples can be found ? Do they in fact really exist ?

Hi Sfogarasi,

More clarification with you. Have you successfully installed Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition with SP1? Do you mean that you cannot find where you can get C++ MFC samples or you cannot install Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Sample Library (vc_samples.exe)?

If you want to know where you can download it, please try the link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9761BB57-F066-4B70-9318-3965C5E68AAD&displaylang=en

Thanks

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Thanks all, I guess all was explained in other threads, but since I started this one, I thought I'd clean it up with my lessons learned.

The problem I hit, in the end, boils down to there being multiple vc_samples.exe's spread around the msdn site, and I was probably just not following the RTFM rule. But to summarize for anyone else having the problem:
I followed the install order as you would expect:

1. Vstudio 2008 Professionalwith MSDN
2. Vstudio 2008 Professional SP1
3. Vstudio 2008 MSDN library SP1 (which I believe also installed the Sample Library without the feature pack samples )
4. (probably the bad step, but I installed the latest vc_samples.exe, which does not contain the feature pack samples):
   http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=01AE159F-08CD-495B-8BF4-A48CC395AD7B&displaylang=en
5. if you did the above step, you would have to uninstall the samples app through Control Panel's Add-Remove Programs (why ? I haven't a clue, its a bunch of text files, not an app. If it was an app, it should have been smart enough to cleanup on its own, some SP1 incompatibility issue I guess).
6. Now you can get the proper vc_samples.exe WITH the feature pack samples:
   http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9761BB57-F066-4B70-9318-3965C5E68AAD&displaylang=en

Now that last link has a bit of a confusing statement on the page that mentions that the file does not include the feature pack samples. If I had read the entire paragraph I would have see it was referring to another link (#4 above), though who would want samples without all the cool new stuff is beyond me. You could probably just eliminate steps 4 and 5 above if you didn't get messed up like I did.

Thanks again all.

Hi Sfogarasi,

More clarification with you. Have you successfully installed Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition with SP1? Do you mean that you cannot find where you can get C++ MFC samples or you cannot install Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Sample Library (vc_samples.exe)?

If you want to know where you can download it, please try the link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9761BB57-F066-4B70-9318-3965C5E68AAD&displaylang=en

Thanks

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Welcome to the All-In-One Code Framework! If you have any feedback, please tell us.

Thanks all, I guess all was explained in other threads, but since I started this one, I thought I'd clean it up with my lessons learned.

The problem I hit, in the end, boils down to there being multiple vc_samples.exe's spread around the msdn site, and I was probably just not following the RTFM rule. But to summarize for anyone else having the problem:
I followed the install order as you would expect:

1. Vstudio 2008 Professionalwith MSDN
2. Vstudio 2008 Professional SP1
3. Vstudio 2008 MSDN library SP1 (which I believe also installed the Sample Library without the feature pack samples )
4. (probably the bad step, but I installed the latest vc_samples.exe, which does not contain the feature pack samples):
   http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=01AE159F-08CD-495B-8BF4-A48CC395AD7B&displaylang=en
5. if you did the above step, you would have to uninstall the samples app through Control Panel's Add-Remove Programs (why ? I haven't a clue, its a bunch of text files, not an app. If it was an app, it should have been smart enough to cleanup on its own, some SP1 incompatibility issue I guess).
6. Now you can get the proper vc_samples.exe WITH the feature pack samples:
   http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9761BB57-F066-4B70-9318-3965C5E68AAD&displaylang=en

Now that last link has a bit of a confusing statement on the page that mentions that the file does not include the feature pack samples. If I had read the entire paragraph I would have see it was referring to another link (#4 above), though who would want samples without all the cool new stuff is beyond me. You could probably just eliminate steps 4 and 5 above if you didn't get messed up like I did.

Thanks again all.

Hi Sfogarasi,

Thank you for your kindly sharing.

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