If you've been working with the WinHEC build of Longhorn and you're frustrated about not having an IDE since you're really just a glorified VB programmer (like yours truly), then do yourself a favor and check out xmlspy Home Edition (feature comparison between Ent/Pro/Home here). I was using Visual SlickEdit v9.0 in demo mode until it expired today, and I'm not at all upset that it did. I had been meaning to switch anyway, so that was as good a reason as any.

Since so many Longhorn related files are XML, xmlspy does a great job. It will also handle your code files and color code the syntax, which is awesome.

Not bad for free.

After Blog Mint [?] :

Looks like Roy Osherove was made an MVP. That's pretty cool.

Maybe he'll invite me to the next summit ;)