MonoDevelop is a free and feature advanced IDE for C# and other .NET languages. The great feature of all is that it work on Linux, Windows & Mac OSX. You can change your operating system but you dont need to change your IDE. code completion support for C# code templates & code folding integrated debugger [...]
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Availble for download as kits and not as virtual machines on Microsoft’s msdn site Visual Studio 2010 .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 Download link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/netframework/dd819232.aspx