As you probably know, Visual Studio 2010 was announced last week and it contains a lot of great features and project templates for SharePoint developers. Below is a short overview for some of the SharePoint development related features and project templates.
- Configurable deployment
- Sandboxed and farm solutions
- Extending SharePoint Tools
- Feature and Package Designer
- SharePoint Explorer
- SharePoint Project and Project Item Templates
- Project Templates
- Project Item Templates
Source : Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog
