> I heard that if you purchase the Visual Studio Dot Net Academic 2003
> upgrade, by supplying the serial number of the FULL version, the upgrade
> version now becomes the FULL version- is that correct?
>
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Who is offering you such an upgrade? As far as I know there is no such
product.
The Academic Edition of Visual Studio .NET 2003 is full version only, and
available (from legitimate sources) only to purchasers with proper evidence
of academic status. If what you are being offered is the boxed retail
Academic Edition, it is a full version.
Hope this helps.

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