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Linq to SQL is Dead
Written by Mubarak   
Wednesday, 11 March 2009 11:03

It's bad news for people who have made investments in Linq to SQl.  As of .NET 4.0, LINQ to Entities will be the recommended data access solution for LINQ to relational scenarios.

http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2008/10/31/clarifying-the-message-on-l2s-futures.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2008/10/29/update-on-linq-to-sql-and-linq-to-entities-roadmap.aspx

LINQ to SQL grew out of the C# team. At the same time, the Data team was working on the EDM and Entity Framework. Some of the improvements that developers have asked for in L2S are already in EF. Some of the improvements that devs want for EF are already in L2S. Microsoft would be looking at making investments in both tools to make them more and more alike and it doesn't make sense.

http://blogs.eweek.com/devlife/content/data_access/linq_to_sqls_future.html

http://damieng.com/blog/2008/10/31/linq-to-sql-next-steps
 

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