Class "Terminate Event"

[MerrionComputin]

New stuff that is really useful:
Managed multithreading - like:

Dim ts As New System.Threading.ThreadStart(AddressOf woofProc)
 
  Dim thread As New System.Threading.Thread(ts)
  thread.Start

Or all the new graphics stuff in System.Drawing.

Or having a vast number of new events for forms (like nearly all the ones that EventVB provided and some that it omitted)

Or having direct access to the WndProc for any messages you create (no more subclassing as it was)

Or serialization/deserialization of compound classes to-from XML.