The MSDN and Microsoft websites tout new features of Visual Studio. However, I am interested in finding a list of bugs fixed in the new release, if such a list exists.
If no such official list exists, I am interested in blogs of Visual Studio developers and users of Visual Studio, reporting on the fixing of bugs in 2008 (release or SP1) versus Visual Studio 2005.
I am especially interested in detail of bug fixes related to native C++ programming.
The following is a link to a Microsoft KB article detailing the changes made in Visual Studio 2008 which also contains descriptions of previous behaviours where changes have occured
I hope this helps
This will probably have at least some of what you're looking for: Breaking changes in Visual Studio 2008.
If you are looking for the C++ specific fixes then a great place to look is the C++ team blog.
VC9 SP1 fixes: http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2008/08/11/tr1-fixes-in-vc9-sp1.aspx