Both Visual Studio 2008 and Dotnet 3.5 will be available in the markets in a couple of weeks. Evaluations are already available at MSDN.

Among the news in Visual Studio 2008 is increased support for Windows Vista applications, which have been fairly problematic in Visual Studio 2005. Over 250 more news are also available and those includes usage of different version of Dotnet and support for webdevelopment including Ajax functionality.

A highlight in Visual Studio 2008 is the linq (Language Integrated Query). The point with this tool is to reduce the gap between objects and data and the programmers should focus on what to do with the data instead of reaching for it.
Microsoft’s goal with Visual Studio 2008 was to give both amateur programmers and professional programmers a platform for development.