In Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1, not only that LINQ to SQL supports the new date and time types of SQL Server 2008, but is also supports forking with FILESTREAMs. Using the File Management Schema from my SQL Server 2008 FILESTREAM post, I created a simple .net application that uses LINQ to SQL in order to access the file contents. Just a reminder of how the Files table looks like: