[gwbas1c]

Yes, and LINQPad lets you write very powerful ad-hoc queries with results that are significantly easier to navigate. It's much better than using SQL management studio to view your database.

FWIW: I shipped a C# product with a very simple SQLite database. When the application started LINQtoSQL wasn't available (we used Mono,) so we just wrote our own queries.

Best decision ever. We didn't need to do the various futzing and learning curve that comes with learning an ORM. Granted, it only worked because we had a handful of tables, very basic CRUD, and infrequent schema changes.

Still, if you fall into the "I must use an ORM/hand SQL" camps, you're probably limiting yourself due to your biases.