If you plan to code a lot with threads, definitely go with 2010. They did great advancements on the profiler and debugger. The profiler especially. It's a thing of beauty.
My personal opinion is that, for anything else, it doesn't matter. 2008, 2010, same stuff.
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
For the most part the IDE has the same interface. A new user to Visual Studio wouldn't really know the difference (although 2010 does have a nice new skin!).
Visual Studio 2010 does have some very nice new features, but if you're just starting out...go with whichever.
