Early adoption by many .NET developers, the recent arrival of needed add-ins, and no requirement for major surgery in VS 2008 SP1 assure LINQ to SQL's future as an object-oriented data access layer ...

LINQ to SQL celebrated its first anniversary on Nov. 11, 2008. As Microsoft's first object/relational mapping (O/RM) tool to reach developers as a finished product, LINQ to SQL gave .NET developers a ...