INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 Readme: Part 2 - Visual Studio

This Readme file contains updated information for the entire Microsoft Visual Studio suite of developer tools. If you downloaded a Core service pack from the Internet, not all sections of this file apply to the updates you received. The fixed issues appropriate for the Core downloads are those listed in the Visual Studio section plus the sections for the products updated by your Core download.

The Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3 Readme contains the following sections:

PART 1: Overview and Installation

PART 2: Visual Studio

PART 3: Visual Basic

PART 4: Visual C++

PART 5: Visual FoxPro

PART 6: Visual InterDev

PART 7: Visual J++

PART 8: Visual SourceSafe

PART 9: File Versions

For the latest product information, see the Visual Studio Web site at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio)

For the latest product updates, see the Visual Studio Support Highlights site at:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/vstudio (http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=http%3a%2f%2fsupport.microsoft.com%2fsupport%2fvstudio)

For the latest year 2000 information regarding Microsoft products, see the Microsoft Year 2000 Readiness Disclosure and Resource Center Web Site located at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com

You can also call 1-888-MSFT-Y2K within the United States, toll-free, or contact your local Microsoft subsidiary.

Please see the REFERENCES section below for more information about how to access the parts of this readme.

Microsoft Visual Studio

Automation Fix

The following run-time issue has been fixed with Service Pack 3 and was also fixed with Service Pack 1:

• Passing in an unallocated array for an out-only SAFEARRAY parameter to a late-bound method call will fail.

Data Tools Update

The following Year 2000 issue has been addressed and updated in Visual Studio Service Pack 3:

• Oracle and Visual Studio Query Designer may interpret two-digit year dates differently - Depending upon a system's regional date setting, Oracle and the Query Designer interpreted two-digit dates differently, which could result in data loss. This has been addressed and updated in Service Pack 3. In the Grid pane, the Query Designer now passes only four-digit dates to Oracle databases. In the SQL pane, the Query Designer passes the user input, either two-digit dates or four-digit dates.

Detecting a Corrupted User Settings File

Visual Studio now detects corrupted user settings files and removes the corrupted files from your machine. When this occurs, Visual Studio displays the following message: The next time you start Visual Studio, a new user settings file is automatically created.

Euro Currency Symbol Support in Windows 95

For more information about euro currency symbol support in Microsoft operating systems or to download the Microsoft Windows 95 euro product update, see:

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/eurosymbolfaq.mspx

Microsoft Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0 SP4 are already compatible with the euro currency symbol.

Internet Explorer-Related Fixes

Internet Explorer 5 and Visual Studio 6.0

Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3 resolves issues you may have encountered when running Visual Studio 6.0 and Internet Explorer 5 on the same machine. If you have or intend to have Internet Explorer 5 and Visual Studio 6.0 on the same machine, upgrade to Visual Studio 6.0, Service Pack 3.

Internet Explorer Versions and HTML Editing

Selection works differently in the HTML editor for sited elements depending on which version of Internet Explorer you have installed. A sited element is any element that has a height or width, such as BUTTON.

With Internet Explorer 4.01, selection for sited elements works as follows:

• The first click on an element makes it possible for you to edit the text within the element.
• The second click on an element selects the element or places the cursor in the element.
• Double-clicking an element selects the text block within the element.

With Internet Explorer 5, selection for sited elements works as follows:

• The first click on an element selects the element.
• The second click on an element makes it possible for you to edit the text within the element.
• Double-clicking the element brings up the source code for the element.

NOTE: Selection for tables works the same as it did in Internet Explorer 4.01.

In addition, Internet Explorer 5 preserves white space better than Internet Explorer 4.01 when you switch between views in the editor.

Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) Documentation

The Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects documentation has been updated. See the ADO section under Visual Basic (Part 3) for further information.

Microsoft Repository Fixes

The version of Microsoft Repository included in Service Pack 3 includes major performance improvements to the Repository engine. It also fixes the following issues:

• 223318  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223318/EN-US/ ) Microsoft Repository running against an international Microsoft SQL 7.0 server would not handle dates formats other than mm/dd/yy.
• 223320  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223320/EN-US/ ) When working with large sets of repository relationships, the Repository engine would return an error stating the object cache was full, instead of automatically flushing cached relationships to the database.
• 223322  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223322/EN-US/ ) The Repository engine would return an error if a named relationship were renamed with a name that was more than 260 characters.
• 223323  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223323/EN-US/ ) If a workspace contained more than 31 objects, the Workspace.Contents collection would only return the first 31.
• 223326  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223326/EN-US/ ) The Repository engine would return an out-of-memory error if the client attempted to set a property of the type SQL_CHAR.

Known Issue

In SQL 6.5-based repositories, Service Pack 3 prevents searching by date published in yy/mm/dd format. To search for a component in Visual Component Manager by date published, you must enter dates using four-digit years or in m/d/y format regardless of the date format setting of the SQL Server. Date searching against a SQL 7.0-based repository is not affected, and dates should be entered in the default format of the SQL Server.

Miscellaneous Fixes

Unable to edit files in Design View in German Microsoft® FrontPage 98.

HTML files could not be edited in Design View in the German Microsoft FrontPage 98 which shipped with Visual Studio 6.0. This issue is corrected in Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3.

Known Issues

• Record deletion causes loss of cursor position with ADO or Microsoft Access ODBC driver.
  
  If you are using the MDAC 2.1 or MDAC 2.1 SP1 Access ODBC driver directly or in combination with ADO and the OLE DB Provider for ODBC, a record deletion causes the loss of the cursor position. Because the cursor position is left in an unpredictable position, your application may not function as expected which may result in the loss of data. For complete details about this issue, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  
  230131 BUG: Access ODBC Keyset Cursor Becomes Corrupt After a Delete  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/230131/EN-US/ )
  
  A hot fix for this issue is available from the Microsoft Visual Studio Home Page. This issue will be addressed in a future service release of MDAC 2.1.
  
  If you use MDAC_typ.exe to redistribute MDAC 2.1 or MDAC 2.1 SP1 with any application built with Visual Studio, you should also redistribute the hot fix. Any application deployed using the MDAC 2.1 Access ODBC or ADO technology should include the hot fix.
  
  Because this issue is present in MDAC 2.1 and MDAC 2.1 SP1, it will be present on any system that has the retail version of Office 2000, Internet Explorer 5, or the version of MDAC 2.1 SP1 available as a Web download.

For more information about the Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 readme, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

230722  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/230722/EN-US/ ) Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 Readme Part 1 - Overview and Installation

230726  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/230726/EN-US/ ) Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 Readme Part 3 - Visual Basic

230727  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/230727/EN-US/ ) Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 Readme Part 4 - Visual C++

230729  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/230729/EN-US/ ) Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 Readme Part 5 - Visual FoxPro

230730  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/230730/EN-US/ ) Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 Readme Part 6 - Visual InterDev

230731  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/230731/EN-US/ ) Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 Readme Part 7 - Visual J++

230732  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/230732/EN-US/ ) Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 Readme Part 8 - Visual SourceSafe

230733  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/230733/EN-US/ ) Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 Readme Part 9 - File Versions