The new Office Zealot Podcast is up:

Show #2: Interview with John Durant of the Office Developer Center on MSDN

The second part of the show is interesting when the discussion turns to VBA/.NET and John recommends office developers consider learning XML and .NET

Here are two additional links mentioned in the podcast:

Convert VBA Code to Visual Basic .NET When Migrating to Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office

Office 2003 task pane discussion CONTINUES