Service Pack 1 for VFP 8


Released October 7th 2003 and available from the Microsoft download site. It's a 16 Mb download and tied up our ISDN line for half an hour.

The Service Pack includes enhancements to the following features:

  • CursorAdaptor
  • TableValidate
  • Task Pane
  • Append From
  • Seek

There is also a new OLE DB provider.

The download page has a 173 kb ReadMe with full details of the issues that have been addressed.

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