I finally got Orcas Professional downloaded (I am SO switching to Verizon FiOS on May 1st from Comcast). I got it installed on my Alienware laptop with Vista Ultimate RTM. It imported my settings from VS2005 it seems good so far. The first place I headed, of course, is Walkthrough: Simple Object Model and Query (C#) (LINQ to SQL).

While, my first experience came to a halt fast -) because it can't find the file alink.dll. I see from the Principal Engineer that this is some MDAC or SQL issue that has been around forever. Nope, its happening on any Orcas programs I try to compile on Vista RTM. I'm still parsing how to fix it. Anyone know? The error is:

Required file 'alink.dll with IAlink3' could not be found.

The program is:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Data.Linq;

namespace LinqConsoleApp {

    [Table(Name="Customers")]
    public class Customer {
    }

    class Program {
        static void Main(string[] args) {
        }
    }
}