You've probably all seen this already, since you read Scott Guthrie’s blog as well (or that you’ve been on the internet after 2005), but he just posted a few examples of some of the new features in the C# Orcas framework. I can't wait to start using the automatic properties! I don’t know how many hours I’ve spent writing stupid get/set properties that only do one thing, return a private field.

You might argue that it was about time some of these features got implemented or that they (MS) are just stealing from other languages. To be honest I don’t care as long as the language gets better and more productive to use.

If you want to see the “complete” spec for C# features, you can check out this document: http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/8/6/5868081c-68aa-40de-9a45-a3803d8134b8/csharp_3.0_specification.doc