I'm hesitant to update to SP2 after reading these threads, but i am of the impression that in order to use the free DBI activex controls, i need to be using SP2. Anyone know if thats the case?


>[could someone correct this topic header? It should be Should I "update" to Sp2]
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>I just wanted to start a thread about this to see what others are doing and their experiences with Sp2
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>I did as Colin suggested and un installed my complete VFP, reinstalled and then ran the sp2 patch.
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>To date the following has been reported.
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>1. The old VFP9 report bug where the toolbar was inoperative, that was fixed in SP1 is now back
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>2. The help file Index is missing many items like ADDOBJECT, TYPE and many others. There are actually no new items added in help from SP1 (correct me if I am wrong) other than changing sp1 to sp2.
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>As such, is there any way to get back the SP1 help file that worked?
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>3. There have been some changes to COM that are undocumented. Previously VFP COM was not passing a NULL DATETIME() properly to .NET. So I had to resort to :
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>NVL(DATETIMEFIELD,DTOT({})
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>Of course NULL is now passed correctly, but that breaks my above code fix and broke my web service.
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>4. There are also issues of Tooltips for headers not displaying.
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>Are there any more?
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>There is no indication on the MS site that the current download is a new version other than the name - VFPsp2.exe -> VFP_sp2.exe. Even the version number has not changed. Don't they have version control software at MS? CVS is a free solution.
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>Anyway I would like to know other's opinion and experiences, what is broken or re-broken, how to slipstream SP1 with the working parts of sp2 etc.
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>Thanks
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>Bernard.