Visual Studio 2008 Features

Visual Studio 2008 comes with lots of new features as compare to its previous version Visual Studio 2005. Some of these features are as follows:
(1)VS2008 contains lot of Windows Presentation Foundation(WPF) Library templates. The User who is new to .NET can easily develop 2D and 3D graphic applications. Visual Studio 2008 also provides game development library kits this kits are available in C++ and also in 2D/3D Dark Matter one image and sound sets are also avilable in this version.
(2)Expression Blend is a new XAML generator tool for silverlight applications.We can install Expression blend as an embedded plug in VS2008.
(3)In earlier version we are not able to open .NET 1.1 application in 2.0. But now in Visual Studio 2008 we can able to run debug 1.1,2.0,3.0,3.5 version applications.
(4)Built-in AJAX control library which contains plenty of rich AJAX control like Menu,Webparts make vs2008 powerful.
(5)One of best feature is Javascript debugging support now we can set break points and run the JavaScript step by step and we can also watch local variables.
(6)New feature of VS2008 is that we can edit nested master pages.
(7)One more feature is Javascript Intellisense which makes developers life very easy when we are writing client side validations.
(8)VS2008 contains one good feature that is Organize Imports which removes unnecessary namespaces which we have imported.We can select all the namespaces and right click on it and then we can get context menu with Organize imports options like Remove Unused Usings,Sort Usings,Remove and Sort.
(9)VS2008 contains refactoring support for new .NET 3.x features like Anonymous types, Extension Methods, Lambda Expressions.
(10)Refine the split view in VS2008 in older version vs2005 we can also do split view but only in horizontal direction but now we can do this in both direction with this we can view design and source code in single window.
(11)In VS2005 all the error whether it is HTML or C#/VB.Net are shown in one single window but now in new version we can separates this.
(12)Now we can debug the source code of .NET Framework Library methods just like DataBind() method by doing debugging point there.
(13)Inbuilt silverlight SDK no need to install it separately.
(14)Inbuilt C++ SDK helps to get libraries and tool for developing windows based application.
(15) Multilingual User Interface Architecture makes this tool powerful now we can change the text language display as we wish.Now it is available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, and Korean.
(16)LINQ essentially is the composition of many standard query operators that allow you to work with data in a more intuitive way regardless.
(17)Previously developer has to install AJAX control library separately that does not come from VS, but now if you install Visual Studio 2008, you can built-in AJAX control library. This Ajax Library contains plenty of rich AJAX controls like Menu, TreeView, webparts and also these components support JSON and VS 2008 contains in built ASP.NET AJAX Control Extenders.