Supports unsafe code blocks for improved performance at the expense of not being verifiable as "safe" by the runtime
Anonymous methods
Partial Interfaces
Iterators and the yield keyword
Multi-line comments (note that the Visual Studio IDE supports multi-line commenting for Visual Basic .NET)
Static classes (Classes which cannot contain any non-static members, although VB's Modules are essentially sealed static classes with additional semantics)
Can use checked and unchecked contexts for fine-grained control of overflow/underflow checking