Bring LINQ to SQL down
There is a discussion on the net about LINQ to SQL and if it should be removed in the future. My collogue and friend Patrik Löwendahl wrote a post about what he think, you can read about it here. I don't care if LINQ to SQL will be removed, honestly I want it to be removed. As Patrik wrote in his blog post, it's not the ADO.Net Team that created the LINQ to SQL. I think the team that focus on data access etc should be the team that build data access framework and the ADO.Net Team are doing a great job. After watching a session in the PDC about EF in the future, I must say that I will not use nHibernate or other OR-mapper as I have mention before in some old posts, I will now use EF. If we compare LINQ to SQL today with the current version of EF, LINQ to SQL is best suited for RAD, but in the future even EF will be suited for RAD. What I don't like with LINQ to SQL, is that developers are using the database first approached, they generate a model out from a database schema. A database is not object oriented.
I don't think there is a reason to have two tools which is "almost" identical, just make one available.