Yes, you’ve all heard the Visual Studio 2010 news by now. If not, the you may want to check out the following links:

MS Press Release

Mary-Jo Foley analysis (and note that jQuery is going to be part of VS2008 as well as the MVC downloads – her article is a little unclear)

Joe Wilcox opinion (in which he rightly puts together the links with BizTalk Server 2009 and Oslo as well as a look at how this fits in with the upcoming PDC sessions.

However, the best articles to read are Somasegar’s announcement and this MSDN article. In particular the latter which has some cool screen shots:

Visual Studio Team System 2010 Architecture Explorer

Visual Studio Team System 2010 testing tools

There’s also some nice Visual Studio 2010 videos coming over on Channel 9, starting with this 34 min piece from Norman Guadagno covering the key enhancements.


Norman Guadagno: Announcing Visual Studio Team System 2010

There will be a controlled spilling-of-the-beans over the next few weeks leading up to PDC, however the main point being hammered home in the first few days is the serious focus VS2010 has on Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) (Wikipedia explanation here)