C# 3.0

Microsoft has announced the first details of the likely new features in C# 3.0. A technology called LINQ (Language Integrated Query) allows SQL, XML and object queries to be written in C# (and VB). To learn more about LINQ, please visit: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/future/default.aspx LINQ and hopefully the other new features of C# are partly based on two Microsoft Research projects, C Omega and SpecSharp. Something similar happened with generics for C#2.0 - this was first released as the experimental GYRO project by Microsoft Research