LINQ to SQL celebrated its first anniversary on Nov. 11, 2008. As Microsoft's first object/relational mapping (O/RM) tool to reach developers as a finished product, LINQ to SQL gave .NET developers a ...

Hence there will be no major emphasis on LINQ to SQL from Microsoft other than some fixes and occasional tweaks. To many that decision was an unfortunate turn of events because LINQ to SQL is faster ...

Tim Mallalieu, the program manager for both LINQ to SQL and the Entity Framework, says Microsoft anticipated the backlash but maintains both data access interfaces will be better off for this move.

So I'm playing around with Visual Studio 2010 while we think about moving our projects to it, and I was trying to make a new Silverlight 4 app, but when I go to add any kind of of data models (ADO ...