You can get VS2010 on trial here http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/download
for up to 90 days.

>Thanks for the advice guys.... would you suggest 2010 even though its the new kid on the block, or 2008?
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>>You should definately move to a newer version. You can probably use the free Express edition to get your feet wet, then buy a higher edition when you run into something you need to do that isn't supported in Express.
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>>>Just a quick question, over the next few months I have plenty of time to get my feet wet with Visual Studio. The question is this: I do own a full blown copy of Visual Studio 2005, but since there has been a couple releases since then - would I be better to just use a more up-to-date "evaluation" version to practice with, or would the 2005 version do just as well.
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>>>I know nothing to speak of about .NET, so just don't want to learn an old technology that might have been replaced by something newer.
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>>>Any thoughts are appreciated.