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I have an MSDN Universal subscription through work, which allows me use of every Microsoft product on up to 10 computers at work and home. Unfortunately, due to some paranoia at said place of employment, I'm unable to obtain my login for the subscription and get the latest Visual Studio 2005 Beta. Enter Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Beta 2. While a mouthful, it's a totally FREE (and stripped down) version of Visual Studio 2005 Beta. Both use the new Microsoft.NET 2.0 framework which has oodles (yes, oodles) of new features that make working in the old version seem tedious. A user navigation control I spent over an hour building is now of course a standard item in this new release. Eventually, you will just type what you want into a text box and Visual Studio will return a compiled application. No need for designing or coding. Probably the next release. At any rate, to quote ABC speak, "Now, more than ever" you should download this latest beta.