For all the developer-types out there, Visual Studio 2008 (formerly code-named "Orcas"), has been released and is now available for download. You can download a trial version on the Try Visual Studio 2008 site. Best of all, if you have an active MSDN Subscription, you’re already licensed to run the latest version of Visual Studio. Just use the MSDN Subscriber Downloads page.
There’s already a lot of useful information on VS 2008 on other sites and blogs. I’ll just plug one of the more convenient ones: You no longer have to have multiple versions of Visual Studio involved if you plan to deploy to .NET 2.0, 3.0, or 3.5 applications. That means that. unless you need to deploy to .NET 1.x platforms, you can replace VS 2005 with VS 2008. I’m getting warmed up to LINQ and some of the other new features in the IDE. Good stuff…
