While most enterprise applications are object-oriented, the data upon which they depend is not. Today, binding these two platforms together results in a significant amount of lost productivity as well as a less than optimal solution.
Come and take a detailed look at the “LINQ Project “ to see what Microsoft is doing to help bridge the mismatch between OO and relational data. We will take a close look at the following areas:

How LINQ manifests a move from an imperative to a declarative style of programming.

New language and framework extensions that provide a single, unified approach to querying data.

Examples of querying data from multiple data domains: In-memory, database, ADO.NET constructs and XML documents.

A look at the upcoming Microsoft Entity Framework.

How LINQ might fit into a multi-tiered application.