Class files may become bloated and difficult to read because of unnecessary and unorganized using directives.Visual Studio 2008 comes with a solition for this. Just right click anywhere on the class file, and you will see the "Organize Usings" on context menu. Hope it helps ;)

You can point to a database on your local machine, and then automatically create a sql script file. This sql script includes everything needed to create the database data and schema (tables, views, sprocs, triggers, full-text catalogs, roles, rules, etc) . It's a painkiller future that you find very useful when publishing applications to remote machines.

I start to play with .Net framework 3.5 RTM. When i build my project which is developed with .net framework 3.5 beta 2 , i got some  weird linq errors. DataContext's add and remove methods causes these errors. These methods are renamed because they are confusing or misleading for many users. In linq model, until you call dataContext's SubmitChanges method nothing will removed or added even you previously mention it. Here is list of the changes :

For other changes, please read  Dinesh Kulkarni's post.

Visual Studio 2008 is now available to download for MSDN subscribers.For non-MSDN subscribers it's possible to download trail editions.

Here is the download links of trails :

• Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite
• Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server
• Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition

Microsoft released a new poster  that provides a nice view of common types and namespaces in the .NET Framework 3.5. You can download a PDF version of the pster here.