Microsoft to post Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2

Microsoft posted Service Pack 2 for Visual Studio 97 today, the second bugfix collection for the integrated suite of developer applications in thesame number of months. Service Pack 2 fixes the following problems: A search performance

Paul Thurrott

August 20, 1997

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Microsoft posted Service Pack 2 for Visual Studio 97 today, the second bugfix collection for the integrated suite of developer applications in thesame number of months. Service Pack 2 fixes the following problems:

  • A search performance problem that causes Developer Studio to use    100% of the CPU time.

  • A bug that blocks downloads from Internet Explorer.

  • Memory leak problems in Visual SourceSafe.

  • A compiled strings bug in Visual C++.

  • A problem in the visual database tools that caused single-row     recordset updates to affect other rows.

  • Other bugs.

In addition to this list, Service Pack 2 includes all of the bug-fixes fromService Pack 1 and a recently released service pack for Visual Basic 5 thatadds the ability to create apartment-threaded controls.

Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2 can be downloaded from the Microsoft Website next week.At this time, only the Visual Basic update is available

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Paul Thurrott

Paul Thurrott is senior technical analyst for Windows IT Pro. He writes the SuperSite for Windows, a weekly editorial for Windows IT Pro UPDATE, and a daily Windows news and information newsletter called WinInfo Daily UPDATE.

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