The release of VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 is just a begin of the a series of exiting stuff for MS-based developers. Lets’ take a look at the roadmap what Scott just mentioned.

Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries

ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Release

• ASP.NET MVC
• ASP.NET AJAX Improvements
• ASP.NET Dynamic Data Support
• ASP.NET Silverlight Support
• ADO.NET Data Services (good news is MS will release ADO.NET Entity Framework too)

Silverlight 2.0 Release

• WPF UI Framework
• Rich Controls
• Rich Networking Support
• Rich Base Class Library Support

IIS 7.0

.NET Web Product Roadmap (ASP.NET, Silverlight, IIS7) – ScottGu’s Blog