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The last few days I’ve been doing quite a bit of database design and implementation.  I wanted to take advantage of the new LINQ to SQL technology, following along with the book “Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008“.  Needless to say, I was googling around quite a bit for example code, etc, and stumbled across this post by the ADO.NET team:

We’re making significant investments in the Entity Framework such that as of .NET 4.0 the Entity Framework will be our recommended data access solution for LINQ to relational scenarios.  We are listening to customers regarding LINQ to SQL and will continue to evolve the product based on feedback we receive from the community as well.

I don’t know about you, but that seems to sound like they’re trying to kill off LINQ to SQL in favor of the Entity Framework.  I always did wonder why there were two ORM-esque framework coming out of Redmond.

Seems like I’m not the only one to think this, though calling it “dead” might be overreaction.

Nice, just when I was getting into the swing of things…  It doesn’t look like Entity Framework has been tried-and-tested completely yet either.

Maybe I’ll switch to NHibernate.  It certainly seems more stable.

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