title: Windows Mobile 6 Development, alternatives to visual studio?
body: <p>I am looking to start writing apps for my Windows Mobile 6.1 professional device (Sprint Mogul/HTC Titan).</p>
  
  <p>I use the copy of Visual Studio 2003 that I bought in college for all of my current contracting work, (all of my day job work is done on a company laptop).  From what I can tell from MSDN in order to develop using windows Mobile 5 or 6 SDK I need to have at least Visual Studio 2005 Standard and I really don't feel like shelling out that much cash just to be able to develop for my phone.</p>
  
  <p>Are there any free tools available to develop for Windows mobile?  Or is there an affordable way to get VS that I am overlooking?</p>