custom-linq-providers

I would like to build a custom LINQ Provider. Mostly for learning purposes, but it may be usefull in the future. I've heard it's not a simple thing to do, but... Where are some good tutorials on writing a custom LINQ Provider? You also have this blog entry: Writing custom LINQ provider Matt Warren (one of the primary guys behind LINQ to SQL) probably has the best series of posts over on his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/mattwar/ It's more than not simple - it's really, really hard, I believe. (From what I've seen of the difficulties Frans Bouma has run into, for instance.) Things like the

I've been learning about IQueryable and lazy loading/deferred execution of queries. Is it possible to expose this functionality over WCF? I'd like to expose a LINQ-to-SQL service that returns an IQueryable which I can then perform additional queries on at the client, and finally execute using a .ToList(). Is OData format applicable at all in this context? If possible, what is the term for this technique and what are some good tutorials I can follow? Thank you. You should check WCF Data Services which will allow you to define Linq query on the client. WCF Data Services are probably the only