Some of the new features of Visual Studio 2008 are as follows

  1. Multi-Targeting support
  2. Web Designer and CSS support
  3. ASP.NET AJAX and JavaScript support
  4. Project Designer
  5. Data
  6. LINQ (Language Integrated Query) for the data manipulations
  7. ListView control for presenting the data
  8. LinqDataSource for binding data
  9. DataPager for pagination
  10. ASP.NET AJAX for getting rid of the unncecesassary page reloads