Visual Studio 2008 released

With a lot of fanfare, VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 released on Nov. 19th. Talking to customers and early adopters, I have received a lot of positive feedback on the product. Check out the excitement in the blogsphere:

• With more than 400 comments (and counting), customers seem to be certainly excited about the announcement of the release by ScottGu.
• Another great post is from a former MVP (Daniel Moth): Top 10 things to know about VS 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5.
• More link love and information of VS 2008 features can be found on this post.

Check out the spike in Technorati's visual studio blog topic chart:

Download your trial copy now from MSDN. In case you had installed any pre-release bits of the product, please make sure you uninstall it first.

Watch out this space for more posts with details of new VSTO features in the release.