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.

Getting started with linq to sql:when we say linq to sql, it refers to the technology through which we can access database via linq. this has replaced the traditional way of writing sql query for ...

Figure 04: Creating LINQ to SQL classes (Click to view full-size image) Immediately after you create the Movie LINQ to SQL Classes, the Object Relational Designer appears. You can drag database tables ...

In LINQ to SQL, the data model of a relational database maps to an object model that is expressed in the programming language of your choice. When the application runs, LINQ to SQL translates the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LINQ to SQL supports persistence ignorance! You read that right folks, LINQ to Entities does not support persistence ignorance, but LINQ to SQL does! Perhaps one of these teams should talk to the ...