Over the last few months the Visual Studio Gallery has been growing as the one stop shop for Visual Studio Extensions. We launched the Visual Studio Gallery with the release of Visual Studio 2008 and in just three months we’ve gathered 600 extensions. It has been great to see just how well recieved this...

This is the official software development kit that allows developers to integrate tools, editors, designers, languages, and other features inside Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta. Key features in the Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 Beta include: Significant reduction in size for Visual Studio Shell...

PowerCommands 1.1 is a set of useful extensions for the Visual Studio 2008 adding additional functionality to various areas of the IDE. The source code is included and requires the VS SDK for VS 2008 to allow modification of functionality or as a reference to create additional custom PowerCommand extensions...

A detailed comparison of Visual Studio 2008 is available. Full Article - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/cc149003.aspx

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 is not finished yet, but we do have a beta version of the documentation ready for you to read! You can learn about some of the features that you'll see later this year when we release SP1. I recommend starting with reading about a totally new feature that we put...

These samples demonstrate many of the new features available with Visual Basic 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 including hundreds Language Integrated Query (LINQ) samples. These samples are broken down into the following areas: Application Samples These samples use various features to make end user applications...

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 provides an industry-leading developer experience for Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and the Web. In addition, it continues in the Microsoft tradition of development language innovation. To enable evaluation of Visual Studio 2008, this page provides links...

The Express editions of Visual Studio 2008 have been released. They are designed for people wishing to lean programming. This included Windows, and Web development. The express editions are free! http://www.microsoft.com/express/