Visual Studio 2008 -

Visual Studio 2008 may be retired, but its influence—on the tools we use today and the codebases still running critical infrastructure—will be felt for years to come.

Perhaps the most significant language feature introduced in this era was . For the first time, C# and VB.NET developers could write SQL-like queries directly inside their code. Writing from c in customers where c.Age > 18 select c felt revolutionary compared to clunky foreach loops. visual studio 2008