>>>>>Is available for download
>>>>>
>>>>>
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=842ACEC8-F79C-41CD-AB1A-AE4F184387C2&displaylang=en>>>>>
>>>>>Copy your old one first - you may need it ...
>>>>>
>>>>>Take any class
>>>>>eg. XmlAdapter, Object Properties, Methods, and Events
>>>>>All the links on the properties and methods have disappeared
>>>>>
>>>>>Same for Textbox, EditBox, Collection, Grid, ...
>>>>
>>>>So are you saying that the new help file is even worse than the existing one?
>>>__
>>>I am, Mike, sorry
>>>
>>>Download it into a tmp folder
>>>start it by double-clicking
>>>type
textbox in the index
>>>
enter>>>Take
Textbox Control Object Properties, Methods, and Events>>>Look at the right side where all properties and methods appear. Not a single one is underligned
>>>
>>>It took me 5 min to find it. They have not even tested their help file
>>>
>>>SP2 introduced bugs - I'm sorry that I have used sp2 for the field - Hard, very hard to undo that
>>>
>>>Anyone asking for SP3 ? Not me
>>
>>It makes you wonder whether it was wise for the VFP MVPs to lobby Microsoft for yet another patch release. They may not have enough resources left to do it properly.
>
>While it looks like they sure are short of VFP resources, I would hope that Microsoft pride' itself would be enough to cause a product's FINAL Help file to be complete and acurate and fully functional!
It's hard to always be acurate (ducking).
But seriously, my point wasn't that a patch shouldn't be accurate. It was that Microsoft should have recognized the high probability that it wouldn't be given the meager resources available.