Free Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Express

For those that have ever wanted to dabble in writing code for Windows, here's a great opportunity to get, arguably, the best development environment for Windows.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Express for free

This includes development environments for Visual C++, Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual J#, etc. So, most all of the bases are covered. It also includes an Express version of a SQL server.

Be sure to download the packages before November 7th, 2006, when they revert back to being paid-for software.