Posted by Grant Foraker on January 25, 2006 at 10:39:44:
MS is offering Visual Studio 2005 Express free for 1 year. They are also offering Express versions of SQL, Basic, C, J, etc which may have a small price ($50 USD).
I received mine via CD and haven't installed it yet. Presumably, the Express version will do all the dialog stuff we need for Comet.