Upgrading from Visual Studio 6 Pro Academic Version

Does anyone know if you can upgrade to Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional (non-academic) from Visual Studio 6 Professional -- Academic Edition? I can't find anything on the MS website that explicitly says you can't, but I can't find anything that explicitly says you can, either. Has anyone tried it?

Thanks

I don't believe you can at least you are not suppose to be able to upgrade any of the Academic version since you got it cheap to begin with.

yes u can! when vb 6 installs it is a retail version and it does upgrade

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yes u can! when vb 6 installs it is a retail version and it does upgrade

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TECHNICALLY you can, but I believe the question is can you do it legally? The VB6 license is for academic use, and I think the upgrade might assume non academic.

I'm afraid I don't know the answer, the best bet is to contact somewhere that sells VS.Net - they have to know the rules ;)

Thanks for the input. I went ahead and purchased the upgrade edition of VS.NET 2003 Pro. Although it'd be nice to know the "definitive" answer concerning the legality of upgrading from an academic version, I have actually skirted the issue altogether by also buying Macromedia Studio MX 2004. So, even if I can't legally upgrade to VS.NET 2003 from my academic version of VS 6, I CAN legally upgrade from Studio MX (a competitive upgrade) -- so either way, I'm covered.

Thanks.

Smart Move, almost like two for the price of one.