LINQ to SQL was the first object-relational mapping technology released by Microsoft. It works well in basic scenarios and continues to be supported in Visual Studio, but it's no longer under active ...

Developers are reckoning with the fact that Microsoft's LINQ to SQL data access protocol is getting short shrift in Redmond these days as the company continues to shore up its focus on the second ...

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Sometimes you really, really, really want to see the SQL that LINQ generates when working with the Entity Framework. For instance, in a comment to a recent tip, a reader mentioned that a LINQ to ...

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Abstract: Language‐Integrated Query (LINQ), which is built on .NET Frameworks 3.5, is a new technology released with Visual Studio.NET 2008 by Microsoft in 2008. This chapter discusses and analyzes ...