Today I watched 5 short training videos at Visual Basic At The Movies, and for my troubles Microsoft is sending me a free copy of Visual Basic .NET 2003. For those of you wanting to get started in VB but don't have a copy of the Visual Studio IDE, this is a great offer.

Now, I could have chosen to get a free “Developer Welcome Pack” instead, since I already have VB installed at home. But while poking around the Internet looking for more information on what exactly a welcome pack is, I discovered a second Microsoft promotion offering to send the Welcome Pack free for existing developers. So why settle for one or another when I can get both?