Is LINQ to SQL deprecated?

Question

Back in late 2008 there was a lot of debate about the future of LINQ to SQL. Many suggested that Microsoft\'s investments in the Entity Framework in .NET 4.0 were a sign th

Answer 1

I am late to this discussion, but I wanted to point out that as far back as 2008, the Link to SQL Project Manager (Tim Mallalieu) made this announcement in his blog post,

"As of .NET 4.0, LINQ to Entities [rather than LINQ to SQL] will be the recommended data access solution for LINQ to relational scenarios."

I have found no other more recent announcements to the contrary.