So I'm currently planning my next MSDN presentation which will occur May 9th and focus on the Microsoft Office Suite. I'll have more details and a link to that presentation in the near future.
In the interim I suggest checking out the upcoming "Live From Redmond" web cast series which the VB Team is putting on. This series will focus in on the new features in Orcas (next version of Visual Studio) and Visual Basic 9.0 (VB 9.0). The presentations are linked as a group on the Visual Basic team blog and this is a great resource if you are trying to get a feel for what new features are shipping with the .NET 3.5, which is the version of .NET Framework.
The first session is this Wed April 18th and is an Orcas overview. They are also adding more as the series continues so keep up to date by checking this post on their blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2007/04/09/live-from-redmond-webcast-series-beth-massi.aspx
I plan on attending several of these as I had the pleasure of hearing many of these speakers at the MVP conference and know they have some great content.