In the Visual C++ .NET 2003 release, the conformance of the Visual C++ compiler was significantly improved in the following areas:

• Defining Member Templates Outside a Class

• Compiler Correctly Disambiguates Complex Expressions or Types

• Default Initialization of Scalar Types

• Templated User Defined Conversions

• Universal Character Names

• Operator that is Pointer to Function

• Support Aggregate Initialization

• References Supported as Nontype Template Parameters

• Argument Dependent Name (AKA Koenig) Lookup on Functions

• Partial Ordering of Function Templates

• Partial Specialization of Class Templates

• Unicode Support

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