Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is out and available for download now. It is sort of funny that beta 1 was named Visual Studio 2007. Anyway, beta 2 can be installed side-by-side to VS 2005. Hopefully, we won't encounter the same removal issue we did with VS 2005.  A go-live license is also included with .NET 3.5.

Some of the coolest new features with Visual Studio 2008 are:

• Multi-Framework targeting support. - Now Visual Studio can target 2.0, 3.0, and the 3.5 framework.
• New Web Designer with CSS support and Nested Master Pages.
• ASP.NET Ajax and JavaScript Intellisense and debugging.
• Language Integrated Query ( LINQ )

Those are just some of the new features so go download it can check it out.