Visual Studio Express 2005 – Free Forever!
As announced on Dan Ferdandez's Blog, the Express Editions of Visual Studio 2005 will be free permanently. This can only be good news, and Microsoft giving things away for free doesn't happen very often. Although these applications are only any good if you are developing programs to run under the .NET framework, they do work well and have most of the features of Visual Studio proper…
If you haven't already downloaded any of these yet, I recommend that you do, and you can find an article on IDEs which I may or may not update on Sandbox.