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

From: eg (egoots_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-13 11:21:20

Tobias Schwinger wrote:
> Peter Dimov wrote:
>> Tobias Schwinger:
>>
>>> 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-service-pack-1.aspx