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Now C# Whidbey got a cool new feature called “Static Classes”

from VC# sneak preview via Eric

public sealed class MyClass 
{
   // Keep class from being created
   private MyClass() { }
}

can now be written as

public static sealed class MyClass
{  
}

This features replaces the design patterns of creating sealed classes with a private constructor that contains only static methods.