Error with Tuple in C# 2008

I have made a program in C# 2010 and my code contains a Tuple, but when I put my program into C# 2008 it does not recognise it, and comes up with the error of:

"The type of namespace name 'Tuple' could not be found"

So I don't know how to make this work, this is the line of code in which the error occurs:

private List<Tuple<Point, Point>> lines = new List<Tuple<Point, Point>>();

Please help.

EDIT

Basically this is my code at the moment which doesn't compile due to the error:

public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    private bool isMoving = false;
    private Point mouseDownPosition = Point.Empty;
    private Point mouseMovePosition = Point.Empty;
    private List<Tuple<Point, Point>> lines = new List<Tuple<Point, Point>>();
    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    private void pictureBox1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
    {
        var g = e.Graphics;
        if (isMoving)
        {
            g.Clear(pictureBox1.BackColor);
            g.DrawLine(Pens.Black, mouseDownPosition, mouseMovePosition);
            foreach (var line in lines)
            {
                g.DrawLine(Pens.Black, line.Item1, line.Item2);
            }
        }
    }

    private void pictureBox1_MouseDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
    {
        isMoving = true;
        mouseDownPosition = e.Location;
    }

    private void pictureBox1_MouseMove(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
    {
        if (isMoving)
        {
            mouseMovePosition = e.Location;
            pictureBox1.Invalidate();
        }
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    private void pictureBox1_MouseUp(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
    {
        if (isMoving)
        {
            lines.Add(Tuple.Create(mouseDownPosition, mouseMovePosition));
        }
        isMoving = false;
    }
}

So I need a way of changing or making the Tuple work in VS C# 2008 as well as 2010,

Thanks

The Tuple class isn't in pre-v4 framework, but here is a simplified version that should match most of your needs:

public class Tuple<T,U>
{
    public T Item1 { get; private set; }
    public U Item2 { get; private set; }

    public Tuple(T item1, U item2)
    {
        Item1 = item1;
        Item2 = item2;
    }
}

public static class Tuple
{
    public static Tuple<T, U> Create<T, U>(T item1, U item2)
    {
        return new Tuple<T, U>(item1, item2);
    }
}

you could easily add classes to have Tuples with more than 2 parameters

Tuples are new in C# 4.0

Check the article linked to from this question, it explains their usage.

Will a future version of .NET support tuples in C#?

Tuple is new in .NET Framework 4. Visual Studio only targets .NET Framework 3.5 as the latest version. Therefore, you are targetting a Framework that does not contain the Tuple class, and it won't compile.

If you really need it in Framework 3.5 / VS2008, it wouldn't be too hard to write your own Tuple class to make the existing code compile under that version (provided you are not using any other 4.0 specific stuff).

Tuple is only available in .NET 4, which isn't supported by VS2008.

Update to framework 4.0 (find any patch for VS 2008) else, visual studio 2010 is recommended for Tuple,