I've seen on Microsoft's site that they had an evaluation copy of VS.NET that works for like 30 or 60 days, however, I could not find it anywhere for download or for order.

Is there anywhere I can download the evaluation copy at? I can get the full academic version for free from my school, however, I have to be taking a programming course at the time and I won't be able to start a programming course until next semester (which is several months away, the spring semester is just about to start).

It's hard to use SharpDevelop for development. It has soo many bugs, hasn't been updated in several months and has issues using the compilers supplied in the .NET SDK.