If you start 'thinking in LINQ' you'll get more done with less code, and what you write will be simpler than using SQL.

You don't ever have to write a complicated LINQ/Entity Framework query, but you do need to know when to call the ToList method on your query. Here's a tip on both.

As I mentioned Monday and in my Visual Studio 2008 review, I've been struggling with the finer points of LINQ queries. In a talkback comment to my review, "CSharper" pointed me at one solution to ...

Because I almost never write long linq queries in Linq to Objects without just converting to the pipeline-esque (or fluent if you prefer) style via extensions methods.