VS 2008 Beta 2 is out

I am downloading the Beta 2 version Visual Studio 2008 to give it a test drive.  I am really interested in looking into LINQ.

LINQ is sort of semi-O/R Mapper ( I say semi because it does not go all they way to even creating the tables and database as an O/R Mapper like nHibernate does) that completely abstracts the database from the client and uses a quasi SQL language in the C# that allow you retrieve data from a table(s) and also perform basic CRUD operations.

Another thing I am interested in checking out is all the new IDE features like intellisense for JavaScript and the split HTML designer view for HTML code.

Of course it is quite the big download so it will be a while before I have it installed.