The company claims roughly 250 new features in the new 2008 release. Among the headlines is .NET 3.5, which encompasses the Vista programming model (formerly called WinFX, which became .NET 3.0), plus the release candidate for Silverlight, Microsoft’s cross-platform rich Internet client.
But because most of these features are still new to the bulk of .NET developers, Visual Studio 2008 will allow you to program with the .NET 2.0 framework, which remains the sweet spot of the market.
