Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is available today and with it, a new age of Office development begins. Visual Studio Professional 2008 now includes all the Office projects previously only in the Visual Studio Tools for Office or Visual Studio Team System products. So now everyone can build extensions for Office.

Now that the Office projects are available throughout the Visual Studio offerings, a new set of developers will be approaching Office development for the first time. For that audience and for new comers to the new Office features in Visual Studio 2008, I wa