Well, then shouldn't it say "MSDN 6.0a Edition", not "Visual Studio"???... the name on the CD leads one to believe that it is the docs for version 6.0a of VS... I know, I'm being "picky"!!! I've developed a new pet peeve about version numbers since M$ decided to throw away the idea of sequential numbers and jump to any number they feel like... version numbers use to mean something. Hmmmm, let's see...

VFP 3.0, VFP 5.0 ... oops did I miss 4?
J++ 1.0, J++ 6.0 ... oops, I miss a bunch! (odd how *real* Java is at 2.0)
Yada, Yada, Yada...

I know, I know... they wanted everything to match... how sweet... every product is now 6.0, regardless of what is was previously... Ok... I'll get off my Bit*hBox! :)

>>Well, that's what I thought but I was flipping through a set of MSDN subscription CDs and saw "Visual Studio 6.0a Edition" on one of the MSDN Library CDs. So, I wondered what "6.0a" was.
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>>>I haven't seen a 6.0a release announced; VFP6 with SP3 adds significant stability and functionality, but AFAIK, it's just a later build of VFP6, and not a separate release.
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>That's an upgrade to MSDN, not Visual Studio or it's components.