Although it's old news and an obvious Microsoft assimilation ploy, this may be of interest to Freespace Source Code Project fans:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.asp … 126606&SiteID=1

Apparently, some folks have been able to compile the Freespace source with this free version (but not FRED since there is no MFC support):

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=36885.0