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Standard C++ Library Reference

A C++ program can call on a large number of functions from this conforming implementation of the Standard C++ Library. These functions perform essential services such as input and output and provide efficient implementations of frequently used operations.

For more information about Visual C++ run-time libraries, see C Run-Time Libraries.

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Breaking Changes in the Standard C++ Library: This section describes the breaking changes in Visual C++ 2005.

Standard C++ Library Overview: Provides an overview of the Microsoft implementation of the Standard C++ Library.

iostream Programming: Provides an overview of iostream programming.

Standard C++ Library Header Files: Provides links to reference topics discussing the Standard C++ Library header files.

Standard Template Library Samples: Provides links to sample code showing how to use the Standard Template Library.

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Standard C++ Library Changes: Describes changes to the Standard C++ Library implementation.

Visual C++ Reference: Provides links to topics describing the C and C++ language references, the libraries provided with Visual C++, the Visual C++ Extensibility Object Model, and the Microsoft Macro Assembler (MASM).

Visual C++ Samples: Provides links to sample code showing the capabilities of Visual C++ and the libraries and technologies it supports.

The STL shipped with Visual C++ has been reengineered several times. With Visual Studio 2005, the STL shipped with VC++ 2005 is a real and profesionnal library. Ok there are others libraries like Boost and but there is no need to purchase an third party library anymore (Dinkumware & co). Thanks to Herb Sutter and the VC Team.

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