Anyone who's programmed in VB for a while will find this article interesting: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000860.html

I didn't realize (or maybe truly understand) VB.NET had a background compiler in Visual Studio 2005 like Eclipse does for Java.  When I was programming in Java/Eclipse the background compiler literally saved me 20 minutes or more a day, its hard to believe C# doesn't have this even in Visual Studio "Orcas". 

The one thing I really from miss from VB is the with statement.  The with statement is very fluent and readable. In C# we could have something like the using statement:

Person user = new Person();
with (user)
{
   .FirstName = "John",
   .LastName = "Doe",
   .Age = 18,
   .PhoneNumber = 5555555,
}

The one thing we will have in .NET 3.5 is property initializers which are pretty close to the with statement, but the one difference is that the with statement would work anywhere.  Property initializers only work on construction of the object and really only save you from having to declare a bunch of overridden constructors.  Property initializers look like this:

Person user = new Person()
{
   FirstName = "John",
   LastName = "Doe",
   Age = 18,
   PhoneNumber = 5555555
}

Now what happens if I need to reuse an instance and assign different values?  Well, hopefully you won't need to, and in likely hood its very unlikely you would.  When I was programming in VB I generally only used the with statement to initialize an object.  What do you think?