The other really cool things about LINQ IDENTITY handling is that you can build up a graph of objects (i.e. Orders and OrderDetails), add the object to a Customer object, and when you do a SubmitChanges(), the IDENTITY fields are updated properly throughout the whole object graph, in addition to linking properly in the DB.

However, the bad news is that the DLINQ implementation is throwing a System.InvalidOperationException because "There is already an open DataReader associated with this Command which must be closed first.". If you are debugging the application and pause long enough before continuing, the data will still get written to the DB. However, I have not been able to get the application to work at all when just running it (i.e. Start Without Debugging). I believe it may be due to my mixed use of retrieving a customer from the DB using LINQ, and then creating Order and OrderDetail objects locally and adding them to the Customer object. I say this because doing a simple add of a Category object all by itself doesn't yield this exception. I also had an instance one time where only the Order was inserted, and not the OrderDetail, thereby invalidating the atomicity of the transaction. I plan on cleaning up the test case and submitting it to MS. Anyone know where this kind of feedback should go?