What's New in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008:
Acend Education First Look Series

This Complimentary Video will take you through the main components of Visual Studio 2008 while answering the question: "Why Should I use Visual Studio 2008?" 
Learn the new development features available in Visual Studio 2008 that can be used to create and consume application services, build ASP.NET Web sites, create engaging desktop applications, design workflows, expose services and enhance Microsoft Office applications.

Visual Studio 2008 provides advanced development tools, debugging features, database functionality, and innovative features for quickly creating tomorrow’s cutting-edge applications across a variety of platforms.

Visual Studio 2008 includes enhancements such as visual designers for faster development with the .NET Framework 3.5, substantial improvements to web development tools and language enhancements that speed development with all types of data. Visual Studio 2008 provides developers with all the tools and framework
support required to create compelling, expressive, AJAX-enabled web applications.

Developers will be able to take advantage of these rich clientside and server-side frameworks to easily build client-centric web applications that integrate with any back-end data provider, run within any modern browser and have complete access to ASP.NET application services and the Microsoft platform.