Has Microsoft confirmed their stance on LINQ to SQL end-of-life?

Question

I\'m trying to make an educated decision about what ORM to use for a number of legacy applications I\'m responsible for porting to MVC 2. The ORMs I\'ve looked at are LINQ t

Answer 1

I don't know if it was just sales-speak, but we had a MS guy come into our shop to introduce us to Visual Studio 2010, and he indicated that MS still has teams working to grow EF and L2S separately.

Answer 2

Microsoft will NOT depreciate LINQ. I guarantee it.

Answer 3

The message I'v received is: looking forward we should really use Entity Framework in as much as possible; LINQ to SQL is basically in maintenance mode: it won't go away any time soon but it won't evolve significantly either. Meanwhile Entity Framework is evolving and also being integrated with other products/frameworks like RIA Services or WCF Data Services.

Answer 4

seeing the others answers i guess that link is worth an answer...:

http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/11/DLINQ-Future

they do a quite good job analysing different sources...

and here the msdn-link which i guess started the whole discussion...:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adonet/archive/2008/10/29/update-on-linq-to-sql-and-linq-to-entities-roadmap.aspx