You can now download a version of the ADO.NET Entity Framework that works with VS 2008 RTM: http://www.microsoft.com/do... And don't miss this little note: "Be sure to download the Entity Framework Tools December 2007 CTP as well for integration with Visual Studio 2008." ......
There's a log of focus with LINQ on interacting with databases, but the other day I was playing around and found other great uses for it. In fact, none of the following examples are related to databases at all. For example, you can use LINQ to filter and sort an array of integers: int[] numbers = { 10, 25, 30, 52, 64, 86, 97 }; var myList = from number in numbers where (number % 2 == 0) select Convert.ToString(number) + " is even"; foreach (string s in myList) { Console.WriteLine(s); } Note that ......