I attended a user group presentation from Daniel Moth last night on Visual Studio 2008 and .net 3.5. I won't go on about the wonders of .net 3.5 as I'm sure you are well aware of them, but what did take me last night was the backward compatibility of it. I knew that VS2008 supported .net 2.0 and 3.0, but wasn’t aware that I could take advantage of so many new features still using .net 2.0.
I would expect javascript intellisense to be supported and CSS, they aren't anything to do with .net, right!
Did you know however that new syntax candy like this are:
- Anonymous Types
- Automatic Properties
- Extension Methods (http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2007/05/using-extension-methods-in-fx-20.html)
- Object Initialisers
How? Well in VS2008 there is only 1 compiler, which is the C#3.0 compiler and that is aware of syntax like the above.