The all new Visual Studio 2008 Express editions are here!

The new Visual Studio 2008 express editions are awesome. Check out the Web Developer edition.

The FUN section

Get your personal Web site up-and-running quickly using ASP.NET Starter Kits like the DotNetNuke portal kit, the Personal Site kit, the Blog Engine kit, or the Club Site kit

Build custom Facebook applications using the Facebook Developer Toolkit which includes easy-to-use .NET classes for Facebook friends, groups, events, and more

Use the Coding4Fun Development Toolkit’s Web service wrappers to easily connect to popular Web services like Amazon, Digg, and Flickr

Besides ASP.NET starter kit, there are whole new templates now like the Blog Engine kit. I just started installing and I am really excited. The most exciting feature to me is wrappers to popular web services like Flickr.

Now you can easily write code that can access all photos you and your friends have uploaded to flickr and show them on your website. You can also post your current reading list using Amazon service wrapper.

I will try out all these features and explore them in much more detail in my later posts.