>>Is Visual Studio 2005 required to do development for .NET 2.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 or can I continue to use Visual Studio 2003?
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>Technically you could use just Notepad. IOW, if you use it just as a text editor and do the compiling mannually outside of it, then yes. Except that you are going to receive a lot of warning and complaints when the software does not understand the new constructs, objects and keywords. So I wouldn't try it as it would be a pain.

Alex, I'm a bit confused by your 'Except...'. Are the compilers no longer going to be part of the .Net Framework? If they are, then why should it be upset by new constructs etc.? Are there objects that are specific to the IDE that the compilers and framework won't understand? How could that work?