Just a quick plug :-)

I'm speaking at the "SQLBits" conference in Birmingham on the 1st March.

The agenda is up here.

The agenda is built by voting from prospective attendees and I found it interesting in that I submitted a few sessions that looked something like;

"Entity Framework Tour"

"LINQ to SQL" Tour

"LINQ to Entities" Tour (this is similar to the first topic but with a very different emphasis)

"Understanding LINQ"

and what surprised me is that the last session was the one that got picked despite it being the session that I'd say is least directly related to SQL - i.e. you can quite happily have some LINQ without bothering with a relational database.

So...if you can make the date and the location then sign up for SQL Bits and I look forward to seeing you at my session if it appeals to you. As an aside, if there's something that you'd like to see included in a session like "Understanding LINQ in .NET Framework V3.5 and Beyond" then feel free to ping me a mail letting me know what it is that you want to see and I'll see what I can do.