Microsoft to post Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2

Microsoft posted Service Pack 2 for Visual Studio 97 today, the second bug fix collection for the integrated suite of developer applications in the same number of months. Service Pack 2 fixes the following problems:

• A search performance problem that causes Developer Studio to use     100% of the CPU time.
• A bug that blocks downloads from Internet Explorer.
• Memory leak problems in Visual SourceSafe.
• A compiled strings bug in Visual C++.
• A problem in the visual database tools that caused single-row     recordset updates to affect other rows.
• Other bugs.

In addition to this list, Service Pack 2 includes all of the bug-fixes from Service Pack 1 and a recently released service pack for Visual Basic 5 that adds the ability to create apartment-threaded controls.

Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2 can be downloaded from the Microsoft Web site next week. At this time, only the Visual Basic update is available