In one of my previous posts I have told you about ADO.NET - Astoria and Jasper from MIX07 .Now you can download it - For those who played with LINQ here's the next phase : Microsoft Codename "Astoria" - May 2007 Community Technology Preview , along with Jasper MIX 2007 CTP so you could realy do something real for the community , like EntLib Contrib project - Start Coding NOW!
For those who didn't know Oren Eini is working on something great: Implementing the Linq provider for NHibernate (Part1) . So for those who're looking for the next chapters Implementing Linq for NHibernate - Part 2 (Ordering and Paging) Implementing Linq for NHibernate - Part 3 (Aggregate and Element Operators) ... Now all you have to do is EntLib Contrib project - Start Coding NOW! for LINQ, NHibernate, Astoria and Jasper =). Your still here ? go go go !!!
An article from the Redmond Developer News about the future of LINQ: Looking to LINQ
Just came across something interesting: NHibernate Best Practices with ASP.NET, 1.2nd Ed , take a look. LINQ is not out yet, and NHibernate just might do the thing.