Updated VFP9 with SP2
As most of you know, VFP9 SP2 came out a couple of days ago. This morning I had the chance to install the update and take a closer look at all the items that it addressed. Among them are several reporting and language fixes.
At first glance, everything seems hunky dory. The install went great and a few of my most critical applications recompiled without any problem.
Perhaps the greatest thing fixed (at least it seems fixed) for me was the annoying data session window refresh behavior I have been experiencing. For some reason, when the data session window is docked with the command window, the open aliases were not showing up in the aliases list at first. They would pop in after a few seconds, or after clicking on one of the buttons in the session window. I work with the command and data sessions windows docked, so I’m not sure if this annoying behavior is happening under different circumstances. I’m no longer experiencing this.
You can get SP2 at Microsoft.com. It is worthy to note that you do not need SP1 installed to install SP2. However, you MUST uninstall the CTP or Beta versions of SP2 before you install SP2. Milind Lele also reports that XSource.zip is not included with SP2 but will be available as a separate download soon.
Now, I am eagerly awaiting the Sedna add-ons…
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October 14th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Hi Tod,
As Colin Nicholls commented in Rick Schummer’s blog, the best is to COMPLETELY UNINSTALL VFP9 from the machine, then install from the versions from the original CD, without SP1. Then install SP2 over the original frst release of VFP9.
Regards
Cesar Chalom
October 16th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Thanks for the heads-up Cesar!
I have not had any problems as of yet (and I’ve been developing heavily since the upgrade), but I think I’ll be safe and do what you (and Colin) suggest…