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What new language features of .NET 3.5 do you use?   [Edit]

Survey period: 8 Jun 2009 to 15 Jun 2009

There's a little more icing on the cake in 3.5 but now that it's been released for a while, which of these features do you actually use?

OptionVotes% 
Automatic Property setters/getters61173.09
Object Initializers47456.70
Collection Initializers36443.54
Extension Methods45454.31
Implicitly Typed Variables (var)46655.74
Anonymous Types32038.28
Lambda expressions48658.13
Query keywords (for LINQ)45754.67
Partial methods17120.45
VB 'if' operator728.61
XML data types in VB414.90
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%

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