>>>>>>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.

I understood. I feel that pride alone aought to have been sufficient motivation for MS to ENSURE that the final Hep was functionl and complete.
It's not like they had to amend any of the content.

Much better pic, by the way.