What's in your Visual Studio?

As I continue my current language-exploring mode, I've noticed that Visual Studio 2008 is becoming a candy store for me.  Is it just me, or do we have an incredible amount of new stuff to play with?  I can't really remember the last time I watched TV, other than Slumdog Millionaire there hasn't been a movie to catch my interest for awhile and when I am done coding, I just want to read a technical book to 'go deeper' in this stuff.  I going to need a geek-intervention soon if I keep it up at this rate!  Now I am looking at the Visual Studio Extensibility Center, uh oh...

Here's my list of installed stuff- Azure SDK, Robotics SDK, Spec # CTP, IronPython Studio, F# CTP, Oslo and M CTP, Parallel Extension for .NET - I got the .NET 4.0 WCF / WF stuff from PDC (looked at in that VPC, don't even know if it's downloadable yet).  I feel like I am 'losing it' on Silverlight 2.0, Silverlight toolkit, AJAX toolkit, AJAX futures - haven't looked at it since PDC.  What am I missing?

 

How about you?  What have you downloaded and installed into VS2008 that has delighted you?

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• Anonymous
  December 23, 2008
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• Anonymous
  December 23, 2008
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• Anonymous
  December 23, 2008
  Thanks for the feedback Keith, I'll be passing that along to the TFS team. BTW...I remembered one more SDK that I've seen (on Hanselman's machine), but don't have yet - MS Surface.  The emulator is pretty darn fun to play with! At PDC, Scott vetted his Baby Smash presentation with me, Asli and a couple of others prior to showing it at PDC.  It was definately the best way to see that prezo!

• Anonymous
  December 23, 2008
  Who’s Ready to Develop LINQ to Esent...Who's ready.. http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/whos-ready-to-develop-linq-to-esent.html