Visual Studio for the Hobby Developer

I have Visual Studio 2010 on my work machine, but I'd also like to use Visual Studio on my personal computer. I love how Microsoft puts out a SQL Server Developer Edition, which is basically Enterprise functionality for the developer (and licensing is only allowed for developing/demo-ing).

Is there something similar for Visual Studio? In other words, I don't want to have to pay $1000+ to be able to have Visual Studio on my personal computer for personal projects. What's the best way to go about this?

(I'm currently using Visual C# Express 开发者_Go百科and Visual Web Developer, but I would much prefer using the full version of Visual Studio on my personal projects)

I'd speak to your IT guys and see if you can get a license to "work from home". There's nothing which quite compares to visual studio...

Are you taking any classes? If you are even just a part time student Microsoft will give you a lot of software for free: http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/