Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2

Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008 (Formerly Orcas) is available for download.  The beta comes with a Go-Live license which means if you can convince your IT director, you can write production code using Visual Studio 2008. One convincing argument to make the switch is the new multi-targeting support that allows VS 2008 to work with VS 2005 code targeted at either the 2.0 or 3.0 frameworks. Scott Guthrie has the laundry list of new features on his blog.