In case you didn't catch this S. Somasegar announced today during his TechEd Developers Keynote in Barcelona that Visual Studio 2008 will ship by the end of this month (November!). Yeah! Most people were counting on this before the end of the year which mean December or early January so this comes as a nice surprise.
We're talking about some cool technology:
- Visual Studio 2008 (all editions)
- Team Foundation Server 2008
- .NET Framework 3.5
- Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Now of course the best feature in Visual Studio 2008 is multi-targeting. This features allows you to continue to develop .NET 2.0 or 3.0 applications without migrating to 3.5. There are lots of great features if Visual Studio 2008 - even if you don't move to .NET 3.5:
And if you are a Team System User
- SharePoint 2007/WSS 3.0 or MOSS support
- Simplified Installation
- Better Offline Support
- A bunch of other stuff including Power Tool Rollups.
And don't worry - you can install VS 2008 side by side with VS 2005.