Since the first release of Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for SharePoint which allowed us for developing custom SharePoint solutions, I’ve expected more support tools and templates for SharePoint in the next versions of Visual Studio, and I was always searching on what is new  regarding SharePoint development, Somasegar from Visual Studio team has listed some new features of the next release of Visual Studio which support SharePoint development, I believe that a wide range of these features are expected, however I guess we expect more, I will give you a brief about what I need from Microsoft in this release:

1- Creating lists & libraries and managing their properties and content
2- Creating and extending publishing controls
3- Creating content types and custom fields in easier way
4- Easier way for handling SharePoint events
5- Built-in SharePoint AJAX controls
6- Creating and managing workflows on site level as well as on list level
7- More facilities creating custom web parts in addition of automated deployment packages
8- Ability to open and fully managing SharePoint portal content
9- Built- in customization and branding tools
10- Automated portal deployment packages
11- Smarter debugging
12- And even more…

I’m really glad because most of these features will be added to Visual Studio 2010, and we’ll keep dreaming with next improvements.