VFP 9,0, SP2 Released

[craigber]

Visual FoxPro 9.0, Service Pack 2 has been released. Down load at

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...c6-ba3c-49d0-8176-8c0b3fca06d1&displaylang=en

Craig Berntson
MCSD, Visual FoxPro MVP,

http://www.craigberntson.com

Author, CrysDev: A Developer's Guide to Integrating Crystal Reports"

 

[GriffMG]

Just reading the fix list... nothing too serious, but nice to get a service pack that says it works with Vista...

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Griff
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[cricket]

Have you tested any other application? It is probably a network issue.

 

[Mike Lewis]

nice to get a service pack that says it works with Vista...

That's right. VFP does some weird things with Vista, which this pack has fixed.

But does anyone know if we'll need to install new runtime files on users' systems?

Mike

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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk

 

[GriffMG]

I think we have to assume so Mike...

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Griff
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[Kurjo]

Do not install VFP9 service pack 2 on XP machines. It will give you Fatal error when you run the exceutables.

 

[GriffMG]

Is that right?

If so, thank you for the tip, SP3 anyone?

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Griff
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[Mike Lewis]

Kurjo,

Do not install VFP9 service pack 2 on XP machines. It will give you Fatal error when you run the exceutables.

Please clarify that. Do you mean that it will give an error on any XP machine? And, if so, how do you know? Or, are you just saying that it gave an error on your machine?

I'm not asking this merely to be pedantic. Maybe 80 percent (just a guess) of VFP developers are probably working on XP machines. If what you say is correct, it makes SP2 virtually useless. To be honest, I find that hard to believe.

Mike




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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk

 

[GriffMG]

That would indeed be a problem.

I'm TEMPTED to try it for myself...

In fact, here goes.

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Griff
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[GriffMG]

Hi

I just installed it on my older XP development machine and he is correct. The resultant .exe crashes on start-up on that machine!

The old exe does the same thing too - the .exe compiled under sp1 crashes on startup on the XP machine after installing sp2...

I'm going to try dragging the new .exe onto a VISTA pc running SP1, just to see what happens.

T H I S I S N O T G O O D

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Griff
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[Mike Lewis]

the .exe compiled under sp1 crashes on startup on the XP machine after installing sp2...

What happens if you recompile the EXE under SP2?

Mike


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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk

 

[GriffMG]

Ok,

It seems that the new (SP2 compiled) .exe works ok on a Vista machine with SP1 installed on it.

At least as far as I can tell.

M$ will have to fix the problem on XP though.



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Griff
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[Kurjo]

Mike Lewis,

I tested SP2 couple of PC with XP and all are giving the same issue and I am going to resintall the VFP9. I have not seen any reliable solution to fix otherwise. If anyone have done so please post it so that those who installed SP2 can fix it.

Thanks

 

[dbMark]

What is the resolution here to the XP problem? As I understand it, these things need to be done:
[ul]
[li]Upgrade developer VFP 9.0 installations to sp2.[/li]
[li]Copy out all the newer VFP DLL files to the applicable locations for developers and users.[/li]
[li]Recompile all VFP apps (EXE & DLL).[/li]
[/ul]
As long as all 3 are done above, will there still be XP problems? (We are currently 100% XP.)

 

[dbMark]

Just a clarification to my first post. I recall that SP1 instructions stated that SP1 compiled apps required the new SP1 DLLs. If the fatal error described above resulted from a SP2 app using prior DLLs or older app using the new DLLs, then I would not be surprised to hear there was a crash.

If you use SP2-compiled applications, then of course you MUST use the corresponding SP2 DLLs!

 

[Auguy]

I'm still on the fence about installing VFP9 SP2 on XP. Is there still a problem with SP2? Or, was the whole problem a matter of not re-compiling the exe and using the new run times?

Auguy
Northwest Ohio

 

[dbMark]

VFP 9.0 sp2 has been out for 6 months. I'm surprised there wasn't a clear update as to what the VFP/XP issue was or why only a couple developers reported it. I would assume that by now that if there were a problem, we'd have more than a couple posts about it. I still think recompiling the applications into new EXE files under sp2 is the fix. Running the sp1 compilations over sp2 runtimes is not to be trusted to work. Be cautious but go on ahead. Just be sure to recompile all the existing apps that will look at the new sp2 runtimes.

 

[GriffMG]

I gave up trying to use the VFP 9 SP2 because I could not be 100% sure if the problem would recurr... and I didn't have an issue with SP1...

Although I am only building apps under Vista anyway now.

Regards

Griff
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[dbMark]

Griff, do you mean that AFTER compiling the existing applications with VFP 9 sp2 they then crashed on XP? Why have only two people reported it or commented on it? Or is there just a huge miscommunication here?

I would NOT trust an exe compiled under sp1 to run flawlessly on top of sp2 runtime DLLs. It could be flaky and crash inexplicably. However, if it were recompiled with spp2 and STILL crashed with sp2 runtimes, then there is a real problem and there has to be an answer found to that problem...

 

[GriffMG]

I can't remember the details now, sorry, but the non functioning came as a bit of a shock.

So, with SP1 working ok for me, I've stuck with that.



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Griff
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