LINQ to SQL Lives On Many database developers have loudly bemoaned Microsoft's decision late last year to marginalize LINQ to SQL in favor of its ADO.NET Entity Framework. The angst played out as many ...

Unlike LINQ to SQL, which was specific to SQL Server, this would have a pluggable backend that theoretically could support any database. The scale of Entity Framework caused it to miss the .NET 3. ...

LINQ to SQL survived the VS 2008 RTM triage, but the SQL Server group appears to be stacking the deck in favor of EF by devoting substantial resources to development of EF version 2 while not even ...

CodeSmith released Professional LINQ to Objects, a set of templates to be used with CodeSmith and Visual Studio 2008 that supplement Microsoft's upcoming LINQ to SQL and have many great features incl ...