This technology demo is a fantastic watch, and is truly a revolution in the way data access will occur in our .NET applications. A LINQ technology preview can be downloaded for the just-released Visual Studio 2005 Release Candidate here. The LINQ project page can be found here. I'm trying out the LINQ technology preview and will post more thoughts shortly.

Another part of the LINQ project to watch closely will be the Object Relational technology in DLINQ. Both of these will be hugely useful in dissolving the tremendous disconnect that has traditionally existed between relational persistent storage and our code.

Tough to listen to the hype machine kicking up for C# 3.0, though, given that C# 2.0 isn't even to production yet. It's great to be prepared for new technologies, and to get your input in at this stage so they can make it the best that it can be, but still it's really difficult to find the time to learn currently impractical technologies when there are so many practical technologies we can learn to help us today.