MICROSOFT provides Visual STUDIO 2005 EXPRESS Edition Beta for free. Of particular interest to the ASP.NET developers would be the Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition Beta 2 available as a free download.

The ASP.NET Web Matrix Project (supported by Microsoft) is a free IDE for developing ASP.NET applications and is available here.

There is also a free open-source UNIX version of the Microsoft .NET DEVELOPMENT platform called Mono available for download here.

Another increasingly popular Open Source Development Environment for .NET is the #develop (short for SharpDevelop) available for download here.

Microsoft provides Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition Beta for free. Of particular interest to the ASP.NET developers would be the Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition Beta 2 available as a free download.

The ASP.NET Web Matrix Project (supported by Microsoft) is a free IDE for developing ASP.NET applications and is available here.

There is also a free open-source UNIX version of the Microsoft .NET development platform called Mono available for download here.

Another increasingly popular Open Source Development Environment for .NET is the #develop (short for SharpDevelop) available for download here.