Good news comes to us from the Office Developers Conference: version 1.1 of VSeWSS (Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services) has been released.

Several new features have been added:

• Solution Package Editing (renaming Features, reordering Features and more)
• Visual Basic support
• New item templates (List Instance, List Event Handler)
• Bug fixes:
• No more GUIDs in Feature Names
• Support complex project names, e.g. with periods.
• Can deploy assemblies to the bin folder, instead of GAC

See the complete list and download the tool over at the SharePoint Team Blog.
Also available now is a user guide to VSeWSS and what's coming with version 1.2.