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The ADO.NET vNext Community Technology Preview ('CTP') went live today...Hopefully I can convince Tommy Williams to write up his 'from the trenches' post once he's recovered ;-)

Anyways, on to the LINQs links:

Today

• Announcing: The ADO.NET vNext August CTP, by Pablo Castro
• ADO.NET vNext CTP - tools and screencast, by Sanjay Nagamangalam
• Incremental Improvement, Important Milestones, and Complementary Goals, by Britt Johnston

And, of course, you can get a hold of the download itself.

MSDN Forum

• Got feedback for the ADO.NET team on the CTP? Questions? Running into issues? Something broke? Confused? Frustrated? Feeling lonely? Go here: ADO.NET vNext Technical Preview Forum

Now, if you aren't familiar with all this ADO.NET vNext business, check out these resources:

Whitepapers:

• Next-Generation Data Access: Making the Conceptual Level Real - José Blakeley, David Campbell, Jim Gray, S. Muralidhar, Anil Nori (yeah that Jim Gray!)
• The ADO.NET Entity Framework Overview
• ADO.NET Tech Preview: Entity Data Model

Channel 9

• Chatting about LINQ and ADO.NET Entities - Anders Hejlsberg and Sam Druker
• ADO.NET Entity Framework on Channel 9 – Pablo Castro, Mike Pizzo and Britt Johnston

Screencasts

• ADO.NET vNext CTP - tools and screencast (out today), Sanjay Nagamangalam
• ADO.NET vNext screencast, Shyam Pather

Blogs

• ADO.NET Team Blog
• Data blog

Blog posts

• Announcing: The ADO.NET vNext August CTP (out today), by Pablo Castro
• Incremental Improvement, Important Milestones, and Complementary Goals (out today), by Britt Johnston
• ADO.NET vNext: The Entity Framework, LINQ and more by Pablo Castro
• Entities in Olympus and Channel 9... by Britt Johnston
• Conceptual Schema by Britt Johnston
• ADO.NET vNext - feedback so far, by Alex Barnett
• LINQ and ADO.NET innovations, by Somasega

MSDN Dev Centers

• MSDN Data Access and Storage Developer Center
• MSDN SQL Server Developer Center