Visual Studio Service Pack 5

[stevenstarkey]

Anyone know, has VF 6.1a been tested with Visual Studio Service Pack 5?

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Service Pack 5? Where did THAT come from? Usually we find out about these SPs in advance, but not this time. We'll test it ASAP - I recommend NOT installing until we do.

Steve

[durisinm]

Steve,

Any further news about this service pack? I have ordered the CD but don't plan to install it until Compaq blesses its compatibility with CVF.

Mike Durisin

[Steven_L_Intel1]

It turns out that we did know about this in advance and did test it. Just nobody told ME! It should look like SP4 as far as CVF is concerned.

Steve

[durisinm]

Are there any special procedures to follow when installing this service pack? Do I need to reinstall any CVF components after I install SP5?

Mike Durisin

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Not that I know of. If you already had SP4 and applied our "SP4 fix", you should be all set. I suppose I'd recommend running Per-User Setup again after the SP install, but that's just to cover all the bases.

Steve

[durisinm]

I ran Per-User Setup after installing VS SP 5 and got a dialog box displaying the following error followed by an OK button:

?Can't open DS key: HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftDevStudio6.5Build SystemComponentsPlatformsWin32 (x86)Directories

Error was: 0x583 (1411.)

What does this mean?

Mike Durisin

[Steven_L_Intel1]

It means that you're missing a registry entry that the 6.5 upgrade was supposed to add. I know I did in later revisions to the 6.5 upgrade, but if you got one early, it would have missed this.

Save the following as DS.REG and double-click on it, then run Per-User Setup again:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREDigitalEquipmentCorporationVisualFortran6.5]
"DevStudioVersion"="6.0"

I had thought the 6.5A update fixed this up as well, but it seems not. I'll get it for the next one. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Steve

[durisinm]

It worked. Thank you.

Mike Durisin