Are you Excited ? I am . Visual Studio 2008 RTM Released !

On November 19th Microsoft has released VS 2008 RTM which is available for download by MSDN subscribers.

To know more about the release visit Soma's Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/11/19/visual-studio-2008-and-net-framework-3-5-shipped.aspx

You can download a free copy of Visual Web Developer 2008 from following site and try it out yourself.

http://www.microsoft.com/express/vwd/

To know more about what are the features VWD 2008 does not supports you can visit Mikhail's Blog.

http://blogs.msdn.com/mikhailarkhipov/archive/2006/06/26/647516.aspx

Also available is the Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training kit. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7602397 (120MB). This includes presentations, hands-on labs and demos -- and is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2008 features and a variety of framework technologies including LINQ, C# 3.0, Visual Basic 9, WCF, WF, WPF, ASP.NET AJAX, VSTO, CardSpace, SilverLight, Mobile and Application Lifecycle Management.

There are lots of training materials on all the new features like Multi-targeting Support, LINQ, JavaScript Debugging and Intellisense, new CSS editor, WCF Support for RSS, JSON, POX and Partial Trust etc. are available in following path.

http://www.asp.net/downloads/vs2008/


Happy Learning.