While developers feel blindsided by Microsoft's shift to Entity Framework, company officials defend move and say LINQ to SQL is not on death row.

While developers feel blindsided by Microsoft's shift to Entity Framework, company officials defend move and say LINQ to SQL is not on death row.

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. Hence there will be no major emphasis on LINQ to ...

LINQ to SQL, he and others maintain, is a lightweight data-access technology and would lose its appeal if Microsoft looked to bolster it. As a result, Microsoft has been looking for ways to support ...

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 ...

Back in July we reported that LINQ to SQL was transferred to the SQL Data Programmability team. This event raised a lot of concern in the developer community, who worried that work on LINQ to SQL ...

The problem with Dynamic LINQ is that it depends on LINQ to SQL and the query data source must be of the IQuerable type.

In a talkback comment to my review, "CSharper" pointed me at one solution to finding the LINQ equivalent of a SQL "SELECT DISTINCT" query: tack on a LINQ .Distinct () method call to the query ...