LINQ To Entities and Lazy Loading

Question

In a controversial blog post today, Hackification pontificates on what appears to be a bug in the new LINQ To Entities framework:

Suppose I search fo

Answer 1

If LINQ-to-Sql and LINQ-to-Entities came from two different companies, it would be an acceptable difference - there's no law stating that all LINQ-To-Whatevers have to be implemented the same way.

However, they both come from Microsoft - and we shouldn't need intimate knowledge of their internal development teams and processes to know how to use two different things that, on their face, look exactly the same.

ORMs have their place, and do indeed fill a gap for people trying to get things done, but the ORM uses must know exactly how their ORM gets things done - treating it like an impenetrable black box will only lead you to trouble.