There is couple of new Visual Studio 2008 Virtual Labs available @ Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Virtual Labs
MSDN Virtual Lab: Visual Studio 2008 - Developing an Outlook Add-In
MSDN Virtual Lab: Visual Studio 2008 - Integrating Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation
MSDN Virtual Lab: Visual Studio 2008 - Developing a WPF Application
MSDN Virtual Lab: Visual Studio 2008 - Developing a .Net Compact Framework 3.5 Application
MSDN Virtual Lab: Visual Studio 2008 - Lighting up MFC Application
MSDN Virtual Lab: Using LINQ to SQL with the .Net Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008
MSDN Virtual Lab: Visual Basic 9 and LINQ
MSDN Virtual Lab: Building AJAX/JSON Services using WCF
MSDN Virtual Lab: Syndication using Windows Communications Foundation
MSDN Virtual Lab: Silverlight Monster Factory- Using a XAML Template
As we all know by now that the Office 2007 products use the "Office Open XML Format" as the default format for the files' content. The following resources would be handy if you ever need to create/manipulate the Office 2007 files in Visual Studio.
Open XML Format SDK
The SDK contains the documentation and the classes for creating/maintaining the Open XML files.
2007 Office System Sample: Open XML File Format Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2005
The name says it all!
2007 Office System Document: Open XML Developer Map
The poster that contains the visual schemas for the Word documents, the Excel spread sheets, and the Power Point presentations.
2007 Office System: XML Schema Reference
The reference documentation for the 2007 Office System XML schemas.
Open XML Developer
Read/learn about the Open XML Formats.
XML in Office Developer Portal
The following articles are a great resource for learning about how to manipulate the Open XML files using code.
Building Server-Side Document Generation Solutions Using the Open XML Object Model (Part 1 of 2)
Building Server-Side Document Generation Solutions Using the Open XML Object Model (Part 2 of 2)
Manipulating Word 2007 Files with the Open XML Object Model (Part 1 of 3)
Manipulating Word 2007 Files with the Open XML Object Model (Part 2 of 3)
Manipulating Word 2007 Files with the Open XML Object Model (Part 3 of 3)
Manipulating Excel 2007 and PowerPoint 2007 Files with the Open XML Object Model (Part 1 of 2)
Manipulating Excel 2007 and PowerPoint 2007 Files with the Open XML Object Model (Part 2 of 2)