1. C# 3.0 and VB 9.0 Language Enhancements of VS2008

2. C# and VB Feature List C# 3.0 VB 9.0 Type Inference Implicitly Typed Arrays Automatic Properties Object Initialisers Collection Initialisers Anonymous Types Partial Methods Type Inference Object Initialisers Anonymous Types Partial Methods Nullable Types If Ternary operator Friend Assemblies Relaxed Delegates

3. Type Inference

11. Generics in C# 2.0 A Type Conversion Error Generics for Type Safety

14. Implicitly Typed Arrays

17. Automatic Properties

21. Object Initialisers

22. Object Instantiation

25. Collection Initialisers

27. Pros - Collection Initializers When used along with Object Initialisers Conventional Way

28. Anonymous Types

35. Partial Methods

37. Partial Types in C# 2.0

38. Partial Types in VB 8.0

40. Partial Methods in C#

41. Partial Methods in VB

43. Nullable Types

44. Nullable Types in C# 2.0 Value Types that can be assigned null value

47. If Ternary operator

49. Friend Assemblies

51. Friend Assemblies Now the greeting class can be instantiated in VBWinApp assembly This feature was supported in C# 2.0.

52. Relaxed Delegates

58. C# and VB New Features C# 3.0 VB 9.0 Extension Methods Lambda Expressions LINQ Expression Trees Extension Methods Lambda Expressions LINQ Expression Trees Embedded XML