I have been using LINQ to SQL for a while, and there is one thing that has always bothered me. Whenever I modify the schema of a table, in order to refresh it in the designer, I
I don't do any customization of the content on the designer so after table changes I just hit CTRL+A followed by DEL. Then shift-select all of my tables and slap them back onto the designer. I don't have 100s of tables yet so not sure if things slow down at some point but with 20+ tables it just takes a second.