HOWTO: Determine VS97 Service Pack Updates in a Product

 Last reviewed: February 27, 1998
Article ID: Q170367
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Visual Studio versions 97, 97sp1, 97sp2, 97sp3

SUMMARY

The Help About drop-down boxes in the various developer tools included in Visual Studio 97 do not indicate what updates have been made since the initial release of the product in 1997.

After you apply the Service Pack to a developer tool, the only indication that the Service Pack has been applied is in the version information embedded in file properties for the binary files that were updated.

MORE INFORMATION

To determine which updates have been made since the initial release of a product, you need to examine the version number in the properties of one or more files.

The procedure is as follows:

  1. Look in the following table to determine which file you want to examine. In some cases, more than one file for a product may be needed to fully specify the update history of the product.

  2. For each file, right-click the file in Windows Explorer and select Properties.

  3. Click the Versions tab and compare the version listed with the version in the table.

The following table lists the Developer Tools Products that shipped in 1997 and have been updated in a Visual Studio 97 Service Pack: 

                         Version on
Product      Files        Release     SP1         SP2         SP3


Visual       setupwiz.exe 5.00.3716   5.00.3905   5.00.3905   5.00.3905
Basic 5.0    vb5ide.dll   5.00.3724   ---         5.00.4319   5.00.4511
             vba5.dll     5.00.7115   ---         5.00.7717   5.00.7911

Visual       link.exe     5.00.7022   5.02.7132   5.02.7132   5.10.7303
C++ 5.0      eecxx.dll    5.00.7122   ---         5.00.7198   5.00.7198
Visual 
InterDev 1.0 devisws.pkg  5.00.7022   5.00.7087   No update   No update

Visual       devjava.pkg  5.00.7022   5.00.7128   5.00.7128   5.00.7128
J++ 1.1      devdbg.pkg   5.00.7022   5.00.7128   5.00.7198   5.00.7198
             emjav.dll    1.01.7022   ---         ---         1.01.7287
Visual 
SourceSafe   ssscc.dll    5.00.2218   5.00.2219   5.00.2220   5.00.2222
5.0
Visual 
FoxPro 5.0   vfp.exe      Build 402   No update   Build 412   Build 415

REFERENCES

For additional information, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 

   ARTICLE-ID: Q170365
   TITLE     : INFO: Visual Studio 97 Service Packs - What, Where, and Why

   ARTICLE-ID: Q176066
   TITLE     : INFO: Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 3 Readme

   ARTICLE-ID: Q172610
   TITLE     : INFO: Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2 Readme

   ARTICLE-ID: Q170366
   TITLE     : INFO: Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 1 Readme

Additional query words: 97sp1 97sp2 97sp3
Keywords : VS97FixlistSP2 VS97FixlistSP1 VS97FixlistSP3
Version : WINDOWS:97,97sp1,97sp2,97sp3
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto

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Last reviewed: February 27, 1998
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