I've just read a cool article about some of the .NET 3.5 language enhancements, and I'm quite excited!

List<Company> companies = new List<Company> { new Company{ Id=1,Name="Socena"}, new Company{ Id=2, Name="Microsoft"} }

There's loads of neat things like that coming up, check em out.

Things like this will help to make c# as terse as Ruby and JavaScript, which is a great leap IMHO. I must admit my current project-load has kept me from grokking all these up-and-coming advances, but I'm excited about the whole DLR thing that's going on in .NET.