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Before .NET, there was Microsoft Visual Basic 6, one of the most popular and easy-to-use pro- gramming languages of all time. The simple reason for its success was that it allowed develop- ers to be more productive than their counterparts working with other programming languages and development tools. Certainly the productivity benefits enjoyed by Visual Basic 6 developers came at the expense of limited language features. When Visual Basic .NET came along, it introduced a new programming architecture and features, such as full access to the platform, for building state-of-the-art applications. Visual Basic .NET was thus established as a first-class programming language. However, the promise of all that functionality and lan- guage support came at the expense of some productivity benefits Visual Basic developers had come to love and expect. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 contains a number of new enhancements, innovations, and advances to the development environment, offered with the singular objective of making Visual Basic .NET developers more productive than ever before. This chapter explores some of these features, and explains how you can make use of them as a developer to write code faster and more accurately.