You gotta admire the dedication and hard work these guys have.  To my knowledge, no other team in Microsoft yields SDK updates on a quarterly basis.

You can find it here.

And for you VB people, here's a couple goodies for you:

• The "DrawText" bug (discussed here) is fixed
• There is a VB.NET sample added to the DirextX Browser (Basic HLSL).

The bad news: There's still no "Empty Project" option for you to start with :(

Also, although the release doesn't officially work for Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1, I verified that the C# "Empty Project" sample compiled and ran ok.  That doesn't mean your code will work, I'm just saying that a quick 5-second test worked ok for me.  YMMV.