• Web projects: Visual Studio 2005 replaced the traditional project-based web application model with a lighterweight system of projectless development. However, this change didn’t please everyone, and so Microsoft released an add-on that brought the web project option back. In Visual Studio 2008, developers get the best of both worlds, and can choose to create projectless or project-based web applications depending on their needs.

• Multitargeting: Web servers won’t shift overnight from .NET 2.0 to .NET 3.5. With this in mind, Visual Studio now gives you the flexibility to develop applications that target any version of the .NET Framework, from version 2.0 on.

• CSS: In order to apply consistent formatting over an entire website, developers often use the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) standard. Now Visual Studio makes it even easier to link web pages to stylesheets, and pick and choose the styles you want to apply to various elements in your page without editing the markup by hand.