>Looking at VFP8, I would very much like to upgrade to it but after my experiences with VFP7, irrespective of whether MS announced no plans for a SP, I will definately hold of upgrading until a SP is available. Many claim that VFP8 is the most stable version of VFP ever. Whilst that may be true, I am definately noticing the bug count rise. The bugs may not cause crashes but there still seems to be a steady stream of them emerging as reported on numerous forums.

Can you name any commercially available application with the distribution numbers or complexity of VFP that doesn't have the bug count increase after it's released? I don't think the number of reported bugs affects the decision to produce a service pack. It is more dependent on how serious the bugs are.

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>I notice over on the WWWC board, Randy Pearson has repro'd a serious bug with the collection class. He has found problems using object references via FOR EACH (this was a similar problem with my automation bug in VFP7). His answer ... use FOR i = 1 to collection.count. For a much touted feature where one of the advantages was being able to process the collection with a FOR EACH, to find this is buggy is a bit of a poor show.

This alone won't justify an SP. MS must determine how many users are affected, is there a workaround, how many resources are required to fix it, etc. Remember...at this point, anything fixed in an SP must be fixed twice. Once in the SP and once in the Europa code base.