Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint

A summary of what we can expect:

• Server Explorer for SharePoint viewing Lists and other artifacts in SharePoint directly inside of Visual Studio
  
  
• Windows SharePoint Services Project (WSP file) Import to create a new solution
  
  
• Added a new web part project item and showed the Visual web part designer which loads a user control as a web part for SharePoint
  
  
• Showed adding an event receiver for SharePoint and using the wizard to choose the event receiver and to just create a source file with that event receiver.
  
  
• Added an ASPX workflow initiation form to a workflow project and showed how this workflow initiation form has designer capability
  
  
• Showed the packaging explorer and the packaging editor which lets you structure the SharePoint features and WSP file that is created

Source:
http://blogs.msdn.com/pandrew/archive/2008/11/10/visual-studio-2010-tools-for-sharepoint-announced-at-teched-emea-developers-2008.aspx