Marwan Tarek's Blog [MVP]

MSDN released insights about SharePoint development support on the next generation of Visual Studio – VS11

• Create Lists and Content Types by Using New Designers
• Create Site Columns
• Create Silverlight Web Parts
• Publish SharePoint Solutions to Remote SharePoint Servers
• Test SharePoint Performance by Using Profiling Tools
• Create Sandboxed Visual Web Parts
• Improved Support for Sandboxed Solutions.
• Support for JavaScript Debugging and IntelliSense for JavaScript
• Streamlined SharePoint Project Templates

Source: What's New SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview

They are really a cool set of new features which are needed by SharePoint Developers.

The question will be all this features will apply for SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint vNext (15) or we will expect another version of Visual Studio?!