Dated: March/2008
Yes as saddening that sounds, it seems it is true.
Having a bit of slack time and not being able to give VS2008 a whirl earlier due to project pressures, I broke it out today all eager to gauge what elegance this IDE brings, specially since I had the need to write a test WebPart.
Out of instinct I went File -> New Project -> *hold up where is the SharePoint Category.
So then me thinks ah! its not built in to the product, maybe another extension for Visual Studio.
So googled and found this post on Somarsegar's blog
Looks like I will have to be content with VS 2005 till Summer (hopefully).
Cross-posted from tariqayad.com