What’s new in Microsoft .NET 3.0 & .NET 3.5?

I came across this comprehensive diagrammatic representation that will definitely clarify what’s new in .NET 3.0 & .NET 3.5. The main point to remember is that both the .NET 3.0 and .NET 3.5 are built on top of .NET 2.0.

.NET 3.0 adds four frameworks namely Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Card Space to .NET 2.0 and Microsoft named the resulting framework as .NET 3.0 (a marketing tactic).

Similarly .NET 3.5 adds Language Integrated Query (LINQ), Representational State Transfer (REST) and AJAX functionality to .NET 3.0 and named the resulting framework as .NET 3.5.