Daniel Moth has a bunch of great posts on Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Here are two great entry points: http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2007/06/visual-studio-2008-stack.html http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2007/06/net-framework-35.html

http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/07/26/orcas-beta-2-download-urls.aspx Great post with all the download URLs for Orcas Beta 2. Very handy.