Announcement #1 out of TechEd for Visual Studio developers: The Visual Studio Team System. This is the new set of life-cycle tools soon to be on a desktop near you. These will include (depending on edition):

• PreFast and FxCop help developers detect coding and security related issues earlier in the development cycle thereby reducing the overall cost of fixing code defects.
• unit tests
• Performance analysis tools
• Distributed System Designers that help reduce the complexity of developing and deploying service-oriented applications
• integrated source control, work item tracking, reporting, and custom policies that enable your team to efficiently manage change in your software development projects

TTFN - Kent