Recently some folks had posted questions about Visual Studio 2005 in the comments section. Many people were asking why they should upgrade. To me there are several reasons, as long as you can ...

So, I've got a C# / XNA game (Visual Studio 2008 express, .Net 3 and XNA 3.0 if it matters) that we're planning on distributing to a large (hopefully thousands) audience in a couple of weeks' time.