.NET 3.0 disappointment

I was ecstatic when I saw that .net 3.0 was released, but I was completely crushed when I saw that it didn’t include the 3.0 versions of the language compilers… Extending the architecture with the new framework additions is great and all, but the real meat of the new features in the pipeline as I saw it was LINQ and c# 3.0. Expression trees, and integrated queries are something that I’ve been anxiously waiting for… so I can only wonder why they released .net 3.0 without including the new 3.0 languages… I could have waited for Workflow… which still seems to be a good product in it’s own rite. (I’m a little disappointed in it as well since you have to pass parameters as a string,object dictionary, and not as something formal like… oh I don’t know Properties?) Overall it’s a step forward, but I’m still going to have to wait for the good stuff :/