WSS 3.0 Tools for VS 2005 Released

I've just been informed that the Visual Studio plugin and tools package for conducting SharePoint and WSS development have been released:

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=19f21e5e-b715-4f0c-b959-8c6dcbdc1057&displaylang=en

 

See the description below as to what this helps with. Basically it makes programming SharePoint a heck of a lot easier.

Tools for developing custom SharePoint applications: Visual Studio project templates for Web Parts, site definitions, and list definitions; and a stand-alone utility program, the SharePoint Solution Generator.