So in my LINQ code, rather than using an explicit Join to attach the Customer to the Orders table, I can query the Orders collection and retrieve the Customer information through the Orders navigation ...

As I mentioned Monday and in my Visual Studio 2008 review, I've been struggling with the finer points of LINQ queries. In a talkback comment to my review, "CSharper" pointed me at one solution to ...

Because I almost never write long linq queries in Linq to Objects without just converting to the pipeline-esque (or fluent if you prefer) style via extensions methods.