Shyam Pather, a dev lead on the ADO.NET effort just posted on the Data Access Blog he has done some screencasts with our current bits: Part 1 Part 2 enjoy...

I am jazzed by the fact that people are reading our docs and posting opinions. The feedback, positive or negative, is always good stuff for us to consume and internalize. One thing that I wanted to talk about, having read many of the blogs out there,...

In case you have not seen this, Sam and Anders are on Channel 9 talking about LINQ, LINQ to SQL and LINQ to ADO.NET.

Some articles on where we are going in the Data Programmability team: The Next Generation Access paper, a discussion of the Entity Data Model and the ADO.NET Entity Framework Overview . enjoy...