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The "C# 3.0 in a nutshell" book has some neat free extras that are worth mentioning for those who haven’t already heard of (they have been released for long). Those are like must-have LINQ tools and helpers.

The homepage of LINQKit (the major part of the extras I’m going to cover here) provides great information and short code samples about the components:

• LINQPad

  This is a snippet compiler (application to run/try small codes in separation than big VS projects, like this), that’s customized for LINQ queries. You can use the SQL Server Query Analyzer -like application to try your codes on the tables in the DB, and see the resultant output and SQL query. Very useful for learning LINQ and/for for making up complex LINQ Queries