For those of you not familiar with the Dreamspark Program through Microsoft. It allows most students to get VS2008 for free. If your interested in plugin development this is a must have!
http://www.dreamspark.com
Develop games in your browser. Powerful, performant & highly capable.
I'm gonna sticky this because it's such an amazing resource .
Westwood is not listed, Guuuuuu. T_T