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Is LINQ to SQL deprecated?
While it is not dead or dying, it is deprecated. That is the main question. There are articles from Microsoft saying the move is to push their flagship ORM – EF.
Is LINQ still relevant?
LINQ to SQL isn’t as popular and it’s not getting new features but I believe it’s still supported and available. If you use LINQPad (which I highly recommend) LINQ to SQL is the default method for querying databases.
Is SQL faster than LINQ?
We can see right away that LINQ is a lot slower than raw SQL, but compiled LINQ is a bit faster. Note that results are in microseconds; real-world queries may take tens or even hundreds of milliseconds, so LINQ overhead will be hardly noticeable.
Is the LINQ to SQL project Dead or Alive?
Update 2: Anders Hejlsberg was quoted in Redmond Developer News as saying ” LINQ to SQL is not dead. I can assure you, it is not dead. Nothing ever goes away. We have never done that and we never will.
Is it possible to kill LINQ to SQL?
1) They can’t “kill” Linq-to-SQL as it is already part of the .net framework. What they can do is stop adding features to it. That doesn’t prevent the thousands of developers out there that are already using L2S from extending it and improving it.
Is there a future for LINQ to SQL?
The key advantage to LINQ is that you can learn and use one query syntax and reuse it across multiple technologies. Given this, I’d suggest that any perceived lack of a future for “Linq To SQL” is irrelevant, as skills you gain in writing LINQ Queries will be transferrable to other tools in the future. We are not killing LINQ to SQL.
Which is better LINQ to SQL or Entity Framework?
The Entity Framework is the ONLY way from Microsoft to build a LINQ Provider. The Entity Framework has turned out to be quite contreversial, but I think that is partly due to the fact that LINQ to SQL has a better programmer experience today.
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