VB 9.0 Feature Focus

In my previous post I commented that VB is coming of age in Visual Studio 2008 with better support for some of the debugging attributes.  One of the blogs that I regularly read is the B#.NET blog and recently Bart has been doing a VB 9.0 Feature Focus where he goes into a bit of detail about some of the cool new functionality that VB 9.0 has (most features are also supported by C#, but there are a few like the XML integration that makes VB a truely awesome language to code in).  Anyhow some of the posts to date are:

• Implicitly Typed Local Variables
• Extension Methods
• Object Initializers
• Lambda Expressions
• Expression Trees
• Partial Methods
• The If Ternary Operator
• Friend Assemblies
• Relaxed delegates
• Runtime Agility
• XML Support
• LINQ Queries