Hi Steve,

For less than $800 you can get MSDN Professional Subscription Upgrade if you own VFP5 or later. It includes VS 6, VS .NET, VFP7, all MS OS's and more. The full version cost is around $1,150.
See http://www.buy.com/retail/software/product.asp?loc=10105&sku=20344261.

>The company that I work for buys software for me to use in my home office. I have a new computer and have decided to buy my own software so that I own it and control it. Before I buy $1000 worth of Microsoft software I wanted your opinion.
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>The company that I work for owns and uses Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Professional. When MS VFP 6.0 was released, they bought me Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0 to use in my home office. I want to buy my own Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Professional so that I am fully compatible with the company that I work for.
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>I can buy the software for $550 - $1000. Am I making a $500 mistake buying this older software or should I be looking at the newer .NET versions or what? Confused. I don't see the company that I work for spending the money to upgrade from version 6.0 to 7.0 at this time. What do you think I should do? Thanks for the advice.