Via [ Paul Andrew ]

I'm pleased to announce the release of the User Guide, Samples and Walkthroughs for the Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, v1.1. The Visual Studio 2005 extensions for SharePoint were released back in Feb 2008 and an update for Visual Studio 2008 is planned for release in June 2008.

Official description and questions can be directed on Paul's announcement about the Visual Studio extensions post.

For Developers (ASP.net) who are looking at starting out on SharePoint there is also a MSDN web cast series that will be happening over the next few weeks.  

Each MSDN Web Cast is an introduction for .NET Developers to SharePoint and the Topic. You need to register for the web cast by clicking the link and entering some details. Then you get emailed a link to sign on and participate in the web cast on its date and time.

Once you sign up you can view these as recorded web casts later on.