Great news! Today, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2008, including Visual C# 2008 Express and Visual C++ 2008 Express.
Grab them here:
http://www.microsoft.com/express/
Windows Vista users no longer need to run the IDE with administrative rights in order to use the debugger. C++ developers can enjoy better IntelliSense integration and support for x64 targets, which had been exclusive to the full versions of Visual Studio before. C# developers will be able to use the class designer known from the full Visual Studio and of course, C# 3.0 (which, if you ask me, is a horrid abomination and has no justification for its existence :))
Also released together with Visual Studio 2008 is the .NET Framework 2.0 SP1, which you can obtain as redistributable package as well from here:
Will XNA express work under
Will XNA express work under Visual C# Studio 2008?
Nope
No, the XNA team was very clear about this, VS2008 support will not be part of XNA 2.0. I think it's a safe bet that there will be some kind of service release sooner or later, but so far, nothing has been made official.
You could theoretically reference the XNA assemblies in Visual Studio 2008 and use XNA like MDX (no content pipeline and no XBox 360 deployment.)
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