The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

June 1999

Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3

By Rick Bean

Mid Michigan Fox User Developer Group

Microsoft has just released Visual Studio SP #3. The good

news is that this time there are actually fixes to VFP 6.0. The

better news is that they’ve actually separated out the VFP

patches from the other VS products (well actually VFP shares

with Visual lnterDev and Visual J++, but that’s better than with

Visual Basic!). The bad news (?) is that the patch comes in

seven pieces and totals over 68MB - you’d better have a fast I-

Net connection, are very patience, or plan on waiting for the CD.

You can start by going to <http://msdn.microsoft.com/

vfoxpro/ > and following the links to first read about all that was

fixed, and then on to the download area.

From the Microsoft web page:

“Visual Studio® 6.0 Service Pack 3 (SP3) provides the latest

updates to Microsoft® Visual Studio 6.0 development system

and its component products. Service Pack 3 is recommended

for all Visual Studio 6.0 tool users, and is currently available for

customers to order on CD or download.

What products does Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3

cover?

Service Pack 3 includes all of the fixes in Service Packs 1 and

2 and fixes for the following Visual Studio applications:

• Visual Studio 6.0

• Visual Basic® 6.0

• Visual C++® 6.0

• Visual FoxPro® 6.0

• Visual lnterDevlM 6.0

• Visual J++® 6.0

• Visual SourceSafeTM 6.0

In addition, this service pack includes updated or upgraded

versions of:

• Microsoft Data Access Objects

• Microsoft HTML Help

• Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC)

• Microsoft Scripting

• Microsoft OLE Automation

Are you missing out on the FoxPro con-

ference of the year? Go to http:ll

www.mesllc.com/conf99.html.

How to Avoid (Con’t from page 5)

the event loop and pass control to the code following the READ

EVENTS. End of problem.

Nothing happens

Well, not quite. Now try running the app from the VFP develop-

ment environment. Close the app. Then try to quit Visual

FoxPro. It makes no difference whether you use the File Exit

command, click on the Close box or type QUIT in the Command

Window. The result is the same: nothing happens.

Why? Because the ON SHUTDOWN command is still in effect.

Instead of closing down, VFP is merely executing a CLEAR

EVENTS, which has no effect if you are in the development

environment and there is no program running.

To avoid this, go back to the app, and add another ON SHUT-

DOWN command. This time, make it simply ON SHUTDOWN

by itself. Put this in the clean-up code, that is, somewhere after

the READ EVENTS. The effect will be to cancel the original ON

SHUTDOWN.

This pair of commands — ON SHUTDOWN CLEAR EVENTS

and ON SHUTDOWN by itself— are the minimum you need to

close down gracefully. But, depending on how the app is

structured, you might need to do more.

Cleaning up

(Con’t, page 3)

Job Opps

1. Jr. Programmer/Analyst

2+ years experience with Foxpro

I + yeat with VFP

Good understanding of database design, Windows NT/98

Good communication skills

Salary 40-50K

2. Sr. Programmer/Analyst

5+ years designing database applications

2+ years with VFP

Knowledge of Interactive Voice Response Systems is a big plus

Knowledge of Oracle, VB and Access is also a big plus

Excellent communication skills

Salary Range: 50-65K

Contact:

Sam Shahab

SysLogic, Inc.

1.888.469.0379

1.888.469.0383 Fax

jobs@syslogic. net

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