LINQ is either really, really, really hard to understand, or I'm a completely stupid programmer

I've spent countless hours over the past two months working on a big ASP.Net project that required LINQ to SQL for managing the data layer. My initial thought "how hard could it be?". Uhhh, yeah... It was a hell of a time getting everything coded (properly) and working correctly so I thought perhaps it is now time to write my first Blog. I've decided I'd like to share my new found LINQ expertise (or at least my very advanced understanding) in hopes that I might save another stupid programmer days or even weeks of frustration.

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