Doesn't Linq to SQL miss the point? Aren't ORM-mappers (SubSonic, etc.) sub-optimal solutions?

Question

I\'d like the community\'s take on some thoughts I\'ve had about Linq to Sql and other ORM mappers.

I like Linq to Sql and the idea of expressing data access logic (

Answer 1

I think the real solution that they needed was something more like SQL literal. VB.Net 9.0 supports XML Literals, which allow you to write XML right in your code, and ensure that it's validated and meets the DTD. A similarly nice feature would be SQL literals that allow you to write inline SQL code in your .Net code, and have it validated by the IDE. There would need to be some sort of plugin architecture to verifying the information against the database, but that could be easily written for the popular database engines. This would provide what I think to be the real solution, to the problem they were trying to solve, without resorting to sub-optimal solutions.