Using Visual C++ 2005 Express with the Microsoft Platform SDK

I think Microsoft really wants you to buy the professional edition of their compiler, because hacking Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition to make a simple Win32 application project involves commenting out lines in an .htm file and finding line numbers and stuff. Notepad wasn't meant for that!

Using Visual C++ 2005 Express with the Microsoft Platform SDK

Update: As some advice from a novice on these matters, you may furthermore wish to add "comctl32.lib" to the appropriate string in corewin_express.vsprops if you intend to use Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition to compile Raymond Chen's new scratch program. Just a tip.