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.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...