What is the best begginer platform of XNA game dev.?

As the question states, what is a good program to start off with as a begginer? And how much do programs run in price, or is there any good open-source programs? Thanks for any help you guys can give me.
[203 byte] By [QuantumMischief] at [2008-2-5]
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Just from looking at your other posts, I would recommed some books to teach you the foundation of C# and how programming works, if you search the Microsoft forums, you'll find plenty of recommendations for books to help get you started. http://www.thezbuffer.com has a good list of books and Coding4Fun has some good beginner tutorials as well. Your not really going to find too much specific XNA Game Studio Express articles yet so those are going to be your best bet for now.

Thanks

MichaelKlucher-MSFT at 2007-8-30 > top of Msdn Tech,Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.,XNA Game Studio Express...
# 2
As for cost, the Express versions of the .NET languages are free, as is XNA Game Studio Express. See here for downloads for the .NET Express versions.
JimPerry at 2007-8-30 > top of Msdn Tech,Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.,XNA Game Studio Express...