A general Census of opinion: Is SP2 Ok now?

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Martin Robins

I know that this may spark an artgument, and this is not what I want;
however I am wondering whether to upgrade to SP2 of the CF or not.

I have seen many threads discussing perceived problems; some have been
resolved and others have not, but in general: Is service pack 2 stable
enough to use now or should it be avoided?

Cheers.
 
I haven't found any problems...I've run a web service client with multiple
(OK, two) forms and a good selection of UI elements (+ a bit of low level
HTTP transfer) against it, and I haven't had any trouble. Valentin Iliescu's
chess program (a Compact Framework app) also works fine.
Also, the device still works in debug mode with VS.NET 2003, which is always
reassuring.
 
There is a bug in the ListView which has not been resolved.
Setting the Background Color of a TreeView does not work (but that is
cosmetic).
There was no reply to my messages from the 11.01.2004:

This was reported in December, but I don't remember seeing a posive
Solution.

Having installed SP2 I have recieved the following Results :

Project 1 :

All Colums of a Table should be shown in the ListView with a Standard Width
of -2.
This worked on PC and Compact SP1
Results : First Colum is shown in the Full Screen Width, the rest accourding
to the -2 setting.

Changed the logic to :
- Set the first Column to 0 and the rest to -2
Results : First Column is hidden, Second Column is shown in the Full Screen
Width, the rest accourding to the -2 setting

Project 2:

First Colums is set to 0, the next 3 Columns are 1/3 of Screen Width, rest
are set to -2
Results: Correct as done on PC and Compact SP1

This seems to be a nasty Bug in SP2.

The setting of the Backgound Color works correctly (which is very nice).

Mark Johnson, Berlin Germany
(e-mail address removed)
 
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