Let me know if you have more questions after reading the link David gave you. I can't guarantee that I can answer...this stuff is still new and we're all learning about it.
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>What is the end result of adopting this technology?
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>It seems to me the end result is yet another way to query data, which ultimately saves a few calls to ADO.NET objects.
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>Seems pretty worthless so far.
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer