Yep if you have not head yet the Express products are FREE for down-load see the Express FAQ on pricing for all the good news. If you want to down load any of the Express products go to the main Express page and pick your flavor.

If you don’t know what the Express products are then read on… Microsoft has traditionally made developer tools quite easy (read affordable) in the past but in my opinion since .NET came out Visual Studio has not be quite as easy to get but now that all has changed! The Express editions of Visual Studio and SQL Server are additions that even after the 1 year of free downloding will be less then $50 this is quite affordable and will make it quite east for anyone who wants to start working with .NET to use a first class tool.

Enjoy!