Visual Studio 2010 is on its way with lots of improvements. What I am waiting to see is it`s support for BizTalk Applicaitons, which we solely missed in VS 2008.
Here are some links to get us to speed with the new trend:
VS 2008 Home MSDN Home page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb725993.aspx
Channel9 Videos: http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/10-4/