Re: [boost] [challenge] detect MSVC8 SP1 with the preprocessor

Tobias Schwinger wrote:

Peter Dimov wrote:

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Tobias Schwinger:

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Hello,

as you probably know there's a Service Pack for Visual Studio 2005 which fixes a significant number of bugs.

Unfortunately _MSC_VER is 1400 for MSVC8 with and without Service Pack, so there is no straightforward way for a library to find out whether SP1 fixes are available or not. What does _MSC_FULL_VER say?

I probably should have mentioned it's 140050727 for both versions ;-/.

Can you use registry info somehow? http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2006/12/17/detecting-visual-studio-2005...