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LINQ to SQL, WCF, REST and AJAX alternatives

Rick Strahl posted his session slides and samples from his ASP.NET Connections. Really good presentations.
http://west-wind.com/weblog/posts/336745.aspx

Dingo schema compiler for .NET

Dingo is a pluggable Schema Compiler for .NET and will generate C# code. The goal is to provide a simple way to generate Domain Objects. .NET XSD currently only generates Data Objects. Dingo can delegate code generation with high granularity.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dingo/

XML, XQuery and more

Using XQuery to Manage XML with SQL Server 2005
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=468058

XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language
http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/

XML Support in Microsoft SQL Server 2005
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345117.aspx

Performance Optimizations for the XML Data Type in SQL Server 2005
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345118.aspx

WCF Web Programming Model Resources

Nice list of resources for WCF
http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/01/wcf-web-programming-resources

MindTouch Dream is a .NET REST framework

"MindTouch Dream is a .NET REST framework for developing lightweight, highly decoupled web-services.  It runs on Microsoft .NET 2.0 and Novell Mono 1.2.2."
http://wiki.opengarden.org/Dream