An internal MS person today asked the perfectly reasonable question of "Where can I find some resources on Visual Studio 2008?".

I know that we've done quite a lot of "stuff" in the UK team and Daniel's recent post is a good place to start.

Beyond that, I thought it'd be easy to gather the UK materials together but it turned out that it's not (we have a couple of web-site "issues" from what I can see with our Screencasts and Events pages) so, in the meantime, I thought it'd be good to link to have a post which brings together some UK resources around VS2008 (of course, there are many, many more resources out there too :-)).

Blogs

There's probably too many posts here to do them justice individually. There are 4 people in my team - me, Daniel, Martin, Mike.

You can catch up with the combined outputs by checking out the feed that I publish here.

Videos

We made a couple of videos out at TechEd about VS 2008 and .NET Framework V3.5. This is just myself and Daniel chatting about the topic and it was meant to be short and a  bit jokey but I'll link to them here. This first one is shorter (scroll down the page a little to find it from Day 2 of TechEd).

This is a slightly longer one (again, part way down the page)...

Recorded Events

There's a couple of events that we've been doing lately around VS 2008. I've included links to screencast-like recordings of them here;

  An Overview of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework V3.5

  What's New in Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework V3.5 for the Web Developer

There are some more but it looks like we're missing the recordings online right now :-( so I'll update the post when we have them. 

Additionally, if you were at TechEd EMEA and have access to the recorded sessions then you might find the sessions that we did on Visual Studio and LINQ. Start here. Session details are (TLA201 A Tour of Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5, Daniel Moth) and (TLA309 LINQ to XML: Using the Language Integrated Query (LINQ) Framework with XML Data, Mike Taulty)

Screencasts

There's a lot of these and some of them were done on beta versions so you might want to apply a pinch of salt but, generally speaking, they should be useful when looked at in the light of RTM. I've tried to categorise. Note that this isn't a definitive list of all the bits in VS 2008 by any means - it's just what we've managed to make videos on so far.

Languages

VB9 - Object Initialisers

VB9 - Implicit Types

VB9 - Anonymous Types

VB9 - Relaxed Delegates

Partial Methods in C# v3 and VB9

VB Intellisense In VS2008

C# Version 3.0 - Object Initialisers

C# Version 3.0 - Implicit Typing

C# Version 3.0 - Collection Initialisers

C# Version 3.0 - Anonymous Types

C# Version 3.0 - Extension Methods

C# Version 3.0 - Lambda Expressions

C# Version 3.0 - Expression Trees

C# Version 3.0 - Pieces of LINQ

Partial Methods in C# v3 and VB9

Decomposing LINQ

The Development Environment

VS2008 Multitargeting

Multi-threading Debugging Enhancements in Visual Studio 2008

VS2008 designed for Vista with better aesthetics and usability

.NET Framework

.NET Framework v3.5 Overview

Web Development

New CSS support in Visual Studio 2008

Script Intellisense and Debugging

Office

Deploying Office 2007 Add-Ins with ClickOnce in VS 2008

Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008

Outlook Form Regions in Visual Studio 2008

VBA interop with VSTO managed code in VS 2008

Word Content Controls in Visual Studio 2008

Office Task Panes and Actions Pane in VS2008

Windows Forms

Using ASP.NET Client Application Services in Windows Forms Apps

Windows Forms Interop with WPF

WCF and WF

Durable Services with WCF V3.5

Offering Syndicated RSS/ATOM Data from WCF V3.5 Services

LINQ to XML

VB9 - XML Support

Creating XML in VB with LINQ to XML

Querying XML in VB with LINQ to XML  

Namespaces in VB with LINQ to XML

Creating XML in C# with LINQ to XML

Querying XML in C# with LINQ to XML

Namespaces in C# with LINQ to XML

 

LINQ to SQL

Introduction to LINQ to SQL

Understanding the DataContext

Mapping Schemas to Classes in LINQ to SQL

Code Generation Tools in LINQ to SQL

Inserts with LINQ to SQL

Deletes with LINQ to SQL

Updates with LINQ to SQL

Concurrency in LINQ to SQL

Joining Data with LINQ to SQL

Working with NULLs in LINQ to SQL

When Do LINQ to SQL Queries Execute?

Deferred Loading of Related Entities in LINQ to SQL

Querying with Stored Procedures in LINQ to SQL

Updating with Stored Procedures in LINQ to SQL

Using SQL Functions in LINQ to SQL

User Defined Functions in LINQ to SQL

Inheritance in LINQ to SQL

Transactions in LINQ to SQL

Windows Vista

Build UAC aware apps with VS2008