So, I am a self-admitted “value layer” bigot. I spend a lot of my coding time in ADO.NET Entities building stuff on top of our value layer (in other words working directly against Entity Client without using our object abstractions). Recently...

The latest Orcas CTP has ADO.NET Entities available and we have posted some samples . The bits available with the Orcas CTP do not have LINQ support or out of the box tooling, if you want LINQ support then you should pull our August CTP and Tools ...