In case any of you are .NET developers, Microsoft has released beta 2 of the new Framework ('Whidbey', 2.0)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
Also, all of the Visual Studio 2005 Express applications have been updated.
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/
And in case any of you are confused (like I was at one time) about Visual C++ Express, you can create win32 GUI applications, you just have to setup the Windows Platform SDK by hand.
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/expres...k/default.aspx