Starting this semester, the Dept. of Computer Science has switched to Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0. This new development environment form Microsoft has many improvements over (the previously used) Visual Studio .NET 2003. These improvements include better documentation, a cleaner .NET-debugging interface, refactoring tools, and the ability to debug web-based (ASPX) applications in a secure lab environment, among others. Computer science students will be able to download licensed versions of Visual Studio 2005 for their home computer via the MSDNAA as well as use it in the engineering labs.