Direct access to the platform :    

Features quick leverage of registry , eventlog , performance counters , and file system in user' application and eliminates the need to use declared statements .

Full object-oriented constructs : 

Helps create reusable, enterprise-class code using full object-oriented constructs .Language features include full implementation inheritance, encapsulation ,and polymorphism .

XML Web services :

The new XML .Web services project templates builds all underlying Web services enable you to call components running on any platform.

Mobile applications :

These new features give developers a single, mobile Web interface to support a broad range of Web devices, including WWL 1.1 for WAP-enabled cellular phones , compact HTML (cHTML) for i-mode phones ,and HTML for pocket PC handheld devices , and pagers . Reach out to more than 80 different Internet-enabled mobile devices using the Microsoft mobile Internet Toolkit .

Com interoperability :

This feature enables seamless bi-directional communication between Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Basic Net applications.