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 guess it's inevitsble that they'll merge. EF is really an enterprise level implementation of LINQ over db objects. linq2sql was to all intents a proof of concept(and a lot more) that actually grew legs but fuelled many of the ideas that we now see in EF. at the end of the day, the DAL layer (nhibernate, EF, l2s, subsonic etc) should be pretty far down the chain so as to negate any differences in the client BO code that implents the LINQ service - hot swappable would be the end game via DI.