LINQ to SQL Lives On. 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. The angst played out as ...

Unlike LINQ to SQL, which was specific to SQL Server, this would have a pluggable backend that theoretically could support any database. The scale of Entity Framework caused it to miss the .NET 3. ...

Drag table items to the Designer window from a SQL Server 2000+ database that you've added previously to Server Explorer. (Although LINQ to SQL was designed with pluggable data sources, the DP team ...