One of the best things of using LINQ is how easy we could sort or filter objects with a line of code. Consider we have a generic list of object of Employees and we want to filter them with their age. Using LINQ, we don't have to connect to the data source and get the SQL to do the where query. We can just do something like this...
Telerik ORM (Open Access Mapping) has been a very useful tool, for mapping database structures into object oriented classes, so called Persistent Classes. This saves a lot of efforts in writing up these classes manually. What's more we could add on to it is to use generic methods on standard adding and deleting transaction.