.net 3.0 Service Pack 1 .net 2.0 Service Pack1 release notes

As reported here

http://readcommit.blogspot.com/2007/12/problems-that-are-fixed-in-net.html

The release notes for .net framework sp1 are finally out at..

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=945757

Also the release notes for .net 3.0 sp1 are also out here

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945826

Still haven't found the stand alone download for this. I have some servers that cannot be connected to the .net, so I cannot load the latest sp1 for testing. Any chance we can have the standalone version MS ?

Cannot chnage DataType of a column once it has data.

Well, someone else has mistakenly set a field on a Dataset to a string. Thought it would be simple to change to int, but the visual tools don't seem to allow it. You will find you cannot do this in the designer. The way around it is to insert a new column with any name you like. Then delete the column you want to rename, then rename the new column you added. Make sure you refresh the SQL as well, as deleting the column removes the column source from the command object select commands.

Also, have you notice the issue with the .Designer.cs file go missing from your project. I find that when I change the connection modifier on one of my table adapters, the .Designer.cs file disappears upon saver. If I then go an make a few more connection modifier changes to 2 more table adapters and then save, it reappears. The data design tools have been buggy as long as I can remember them, even from beta. Time to move to and ORM mapper I think.

.net deployment project and win 2003 server install.

Blogging this as I have a tendancy to forget this kind of information. Been trying for some time to get a .net deployment project installed onto a win 2003 server. I was running the install and it kept erroring saying "The installer was interrupted before xxx.xxx could be installed. You need to restart the installer to try again. I hadn't done one of these installs before so I started poking around the installer. With .msi's you can get them to provide increased logging information when you run then. I used

xxx.msi /l* log.txt and ran the installer again. This time I had a log file with some errors in it.

The first error eas Custom Action WEBCA_EvaluateURLsNoFail did not close 2 MSIHANDLEs

I did a quick google on this and it seemed related to there being no URL on the server. I check win 2003 and found that by default it doesn't have any web sites setup at all. I added a default web site, and then the install went fine.