>Has anyone else experienced problems after installing SP2? I'm suddenly prone to crashes without cause. Even foxhelp locks up for no reason.
Yes I have experienced problems with SP2. Not exactly crashes but I find that code that worked in SP1 would not run in SP2 correctly.
See this link for the list of bugs so far reported.
http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VFP9SP2BugList~WikiWhile not exactly comprehensive, it still has caused an applications that so far worked to stop working and that IMHO , in a production environment, is a BIG NO-NO.
In my production, the company (>170 users) depend on my code and to have it break and not work will stop the company from doing business since my software is used to manage the complete network of clubs from top to bottom.
U have also had a running Web Service in .NET that uses a VFP COM for the business logic, and accessed by our members for account maintenance. With SP2 (test environment of course) suddenly functions that worked do not. Methods that were passing DATETIME() back to .NET now passes a NULL. Methods that passed EMPTY DATETIME values suddenly fail with an error. COM is internal. Who knows what is going on and what was changed? For safety I have converted all my DataTime() to strings as who knows what may break with some other VFP or even .NET update?
We use Terminal Services on Win 2003 server so no Vista problems thank God.
It will be a long time before I update my applications to SP2. Especially because of the deafening silence from the Microsoft VFP people.
The latest bug I found is in the _reportlistener.vcx base class which breaks my currently running reports. Why they change such important classes without documenting them is beyond me.
Sergy has posted a fix for _reportlistener.vcx which I have to try, but knowing Sergy this will be an authentic fix.
http://www.levelextreme.com/wconnect/wc.dll?2,15,1268158So you need to make a hard choice. Can you live with these bugs (who knows where else they are hiding) for the benefit of Sp2 & Vista?
VFP has always been backward compatible, and when things changed, they were documented. This time it has been messy from day one and even the Help file is missing things. Where is the documentation for the so called Reporting enhancements?
Nuff said. I am pi(ss)ed off.
