We will use the C# 2.0 language and Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 Professional as the integrated development environment (IDE) for course projects.  A free license for it will be made available to you through the MSDN Academic Alliance; you can obtain the software by download or as a DVD loaner from CETS.  If no DVD drive, CETS can also provide CD's.

After installing VS.NET '05, you should also install this update from the web.

If you don't have a Windows computer, you should be able to develop your projects in CETS labs--but please remember to delete your code from the lab computer after each work session.   Because this is so easy for forget, I recommend that you use your own computer if at all possible.  Also, CETS labs have a different version of VS.NET, Team System Beta 2, which creates assemblies incompatible with the official release.  If you move C# code between a lab computer and your computer, you will need to recompile.  If you move C# code between a lab computer and the class server, you will also need to recompile.
 

NOTE: If your computer is not Windows (i.e., Mac or Linux), you may be able to obtain Virtual PC software which, so I'm told, emulates Windows well enough to run the .NET framework and VS.NET, assuming your computer has enough capacity.  CETS should be able to provide you with the Virtual PC software.