There is a lot of noise these days around Visual Studio 2008 and fancy LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework and discussions how they will change the way data driven applications is done.
But somethign was missed 'till now - How this would affect database administrators (DBAs)? Erick Thompson post a good explanation about these technologies that targets DBA and explain what will be changed on their daily job.
Go and read ADO.NET Blog post - it worths.