Visual Studio 2010 has been released in Beta 1 so as a Sharepoint developer my first thought was to get my hands on the much advertised Sharepoint templates for Sharepoint. But to my disappointment I was unable to find any, so I guess I just have to wait a little longer

Here's some screenshots of the start page and Add new project.

You have to choose .NET 3.5 and the only two templates are the ones for workflows.

Please let me know if this is totally wrong, I would love to try them out.

After reinstalling my developement environment so it would run on a Windows 2008 server in 64 bit to accomodate the requirements for a future update to Sharepoint 2010, I found my self searching the web for guides on installing Sharepoint on a 2008 box, I've done it before but naturally I have forgot all about how to do it, so here's a guide to how you should go about that.

First you need to download the two updates for WSS and MOSS respectively,
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=79BADA82-C13F-44C1-BDC1-D0447337051B&displaylang=en 
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=B7816D90-5FC6-4347-89B0-A80DEB27A082&displaylang=en 
just save them to any location you prefer, it's not important.

You need to copy all the sharepoint installation files to you harddrive.

open a command prompt and navigate to the folder where the updates are saved and type the following command:

Select the location of you Sharepoint installation files

 
It's important that you select the Updates folder for the extracted files.

Press OK, a EULA will be shown

Accept the terms and press Continue

Repeat the steps for MOSS SP 2

Select the same folder as before 

Accept the license terms

Verify that all files has been extracted to the Update folder, and you are ready to install Sharepoint

SP 2 is a cumulative update which means that it contains all previously released updates, more info an be found at these KB articles http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953338 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953334

Enjoy!