Yeah I was interested in downloading this and playing around with it. I don’t really do GUI or game development but I thought that I might have some fun and maybe learn some things. My ultimate goal was to be able to write silly little things for the Xbox360. For instance, I wanted to make a simple puzzle game for Windows (which you can already get) which I could then port over to the 360 for fun. I wanted to write my own version of the game strictly for educational purposes. So I figured I might as well use XNA so that I could play on the xbox also.
The problem being that I have Visual Studio 2005 at home and not VS2005 Express. I can’t install the free version of XNA unless I install the free version of Visual Studio. That seems silly to me. If I have a full fledged version of VS I ought to be able to use free tools just like people who didn’t acquire the full version. Silly Microsoft.
Here’s a link to some other recently released devel tools that you might want to check out :
http://www.turboexplorer.com/