I am using vs express for a long time but recently fallback to vs 2008. It is really hard to develop windows gui program with vs express. As a compiler and edit

I am using vs express for a long time but recently fallback to vs 2008. It is really hard to develop windows gui program with vs express. As a compiler and editor, vs express is good. But because Microsoft makes it so hard to program from scratch (the vs automatic tool generated tons of codes for ActiveX), personally, it is really an unhappy experience to develop ActiveX control with vs express.