migration from vs 2005 to 2008

Question

just migrated my development teams on to vs 2008. can anyone give there biggest highlights of this upgrade on useful features.

EDIT: we are still doing winforms development

Answer 1

I'm not sure what you use in Visual Studio - but a good place to start looking for things to highlight might be MSDN.

• If you work in C# or Visual Basic, LINQ is a pretty big deal.
• In C# being able to use implict typing for local variables is great.
• C# 3.0's auto-implemented properties are also really neat.

Answer 2

If you're using WPF, the XAML editor is quite a bit better.

Answer 3

This article at MSDN and this from C# Corner list out all new features in VS2008.