LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework (EF) are both object/relational mapping (O/RM) tools for .NET, so it's not surprising that they share many common features. This table compares the most significant ...

Of course, many who invested in LINQ to SQL felt jilted last fall when Microsoft shifted its focus to the EF. With the v2 release of the EF, Gadodia said a lot of the features of LINQ to SQL are now ...

Unlike LINQ to SQL, which was specific to SQL Server, this would have a pluggable backend that theoretically could support any database. The scale of Entity Framework caused it to miss the .NET 3. ...

The designers in both LINQ to SQL and ADO.NET Entity Framework have a number of limitations. In order to work around these limitations, products such as Huagati DBML/EDMX Tools have been developed ...

Twice in the past couple of months I’ve gotten tripped up by the same data issue when using LINQ to Entities in the .NET framework. I create a simple view in my database which performs some ...