Thanks to Christian for informing me that Visual Studio .NET Beta 2 is now available at MSDN
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Beta 2 gives customers an in-depth look at the forthcoming innovations of Visual Studio .NET. This newest version of Visual Studio provides a complete development environment for building XML Web services and applications on the Microsoft .NET Framework , Microsoft´s next-generation Web application development platform.Read more
You can order Visual Studio .NET on CD or DVD, or you can receive it automatically when you subscribe to MSDN Universal.