Re: Please Report SP6 bugs! (was Re: Visual Studio SP6)

From: Jim Carlock (anonymous_at_127.0.0.1)
Date: 04/13/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 15:50:39 -0400

Marcus,

Can you clear your Internet Explorer cache and download the
Service Pack again and then after it downloads, do the following:

Rename the service pack, and copy the file over to where the
original download was put into place.

The files should be displaying the same size.

Open up a DOS command prompt and type in the following:

fc /b <sp6name1.exe> <sp6name2.exe>

If it reports any errors you will know that some bit shifting occurred
in one of the downloads. And if this is the case, you will need to
download the service pack a third time and do the file comparisons
again. You want to identify the two files that are the same and
delete the file that is different.

If you are sure that this is NOT the problem, please post back
identifying such.

I saw your post somewhere else in the newsgroup, but this one
is highlighted on my list of highlights. I think it was your post. If
it was or was NOT you please identify such and let us know.

We need to know that if one or two people that are experiencing
the same problem. :-)

NOTE: Do not delete the files. Bit shifting is NOT limited to
downloads and can happen during file extraction and file copying.
This means that you may have had a good download, but during
the extraction process, the file that was written to your HDD in
the system32 or system folder, could be corrupted.

If one of the files is a bad file, delete that bad file, and then let us
know if there was a bad file.

The files can be extracted by adding the following switches:
/c /t:<FullyQualifiedPathNameTarget> 

-- 
Jim Carlock
http://www.microcosmotalk.com/
Post replies to the newsgroup.
"Marcus Smaby" <mrsmaby@@@msn.com> wrote in message
news:eXZ$NaYIEHA.2312@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
I just ran the SP6 install. It reported an error midway through regarding
richtx32.ocx and said it logged the error (where??). After the reboot I
attempted to manually register the richtx32.ocx and received the message
'DllRegisterServer in richtx32 failed. return code was: 0x8002801c'. I ran a
dependancy walker on the richtx32.ocx and I don't see any missing
dependencies. The KB has nothing on this either. Marcus
WinXP SP1.
"Randy Birch" <rgb_removethis@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:%233AGewkHEHA.252@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> (cross-posted intentionally to maximize exposure)
>
> OK ... here is our chance.
>
> If you have discovered a bug in VB6 ***that was introduced with the
> application of VS6/VB6 Service Pack 6*** I need to know ASAP.  One more
time
> ... this bug *must* have been introduced by the installation of VS/VB SP6
> only.
>
> The MS dev team is awaiting our report, therefore in order to get them to
> actually see the issue I need from you:
>
> - Brief description of the bug
> - The precise steps to reproduce the bug (for the bug report) that
includes,
> wherever applicable, the simplest project code to display the bug.
>
> Post the information here - do not email me as my anti-spam rules are
> aggressive and your report may not be received. Try to post new bugs as a
> subthread to this "Please Report SP6 bugs! (was Re: Visual Studio SP6)"
main
> post rather than as a response to another's post, just to helps sort out
new
> issues.  "Me too" messages are welcome under the initial bug topic,
> especially if you can provide alternate steps or code to reproduce the
> identified bug.
>
> I have already bugged the Listview Columnheader initially raised in the
> original thread in vb.general.discussion, issue so please don't report
that
> bug again. But other listview issues can be posted.
>
> If you don't post discovered SP6-related issues, we can't get them
> identified and possibly fixed in a collective hotfix.  So please don't
> hesitate. I will post status updates to this thread as they are received
> from MS.
>
> -- 
>
> Randy Birch
> MVP Visual Basic
> http://vbnet.mvps.org/
> Please respond only to the newsgroups so all can benefit.
>

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