What's new in visual studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5

Microsoft has just released the visual studio 2008 and .net framework 3.5. I have found a great link to discover what's new in visual studio 2008 and .net framework. The Link contains following things.

1) WPF improvements.
2) What's new in visual studio 2008
3) What's new in .net framework 3.5

Here is the link for that:

http://windowsclient.net/vstudio2008.aspx

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Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 3.5Release

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET framework released by the Microsoft recent days.It has lots of new features compare to it's prior version.

With asp.net 3.5 you can now develop web application as you are developing desktop application. You can give functionality to asp.net web application just like desktop with lots of new technologies with .net framework 3.5.

I have found a great link form where you can download asp.net 3.5 and visual studio 2008.

Here is the link:
http://www.asp.net/downloads/vs2008/

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What is diffrenece between string.compare and string.compareordinal

String.Compare can be or not be case-sensitive, and can incorporate anynumber of comparison options, including culture-sensitivity and sortingrules. That is, it is not comparing the exact strings necessarily, but canbe configured to do various sorts of comparisons. String.CompareOrdinalcompares the numeric values of the individual Unicode characters of thestrings. In other words, it is always case-sensitive, and neverculture-sensitive.

String.CompareOrdinal is faster (more efficient) when you don't need to do aculture-sensitive comparison, and you do want to do a case-sensitivecomparison.String.CompareTo is case-sensitive, using an Ordinal comparison, andculture-sensitive, but always uses the current culture. It is faster thanString.Compare, but less efficient than String.CompareOrdinal.

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