What's New in C# 3.0?: Part 1

With the release of Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft has updated the C# language to its latest version, 3.0. C# 3.0 contains several key language enhancements that support the recently-announced Language INtegrated Query (LINQ) feature. This paper, the first of a two-part series, will walk through each of these new, time-saving language enhancements and provide a couple of code examples illustrating how to use them.