Visual resource editor for Visual C++ Express

As mentioned in a previous post, after installing the Express edition of Visual C++ 2008, i found out it didn’t had a visual resource editor, while the c# express compiler does include one, so i started to look for an alternative and after looking at various commercial apps i found some free ones:

Very cool resource editor, free, not open source though:
ResEdit

This one includes the complete IDE, it is open source and seems to work with several compilers:
http://www.ultimatepp.org/

Here is another one, seems ok, not tested:
http://www.wilsonc.demon.co.uk/d10resourceeditor.htm

And of course there are a couple commercial ones, i found this one to be good:
http://www.resource-builder.com/download.html

But i did not use it so much to have a real world opinion so…

While the Visual c++ 2008 express edition seems to be targeted to students or beginners, i found that very hard to believe, without the resource editor, how are they supposed to get up to speed?, by programming like 25 years ago? I guess it is in microsoft’s best interest to move everyone into using c# as soon as possible.