RE: Just recently, LINQ to SQL was going to be the “big thing”, but then they decided that Entity Framework is the “right way”.
Hey, don’t tell me Microsoft is now planning to let LINQ go by the wayside? I just spent money on a LINQ book and spent weeks trying to master it and now you’re telling me my hours spent to make myself more marketable in the IT world is all in vain ?
LINQ will stay, but they seem to want you to use Entity Framework instead of LINQ to SQL for database work.
See this as an example.
They seem to only want you to use LINQ for internal object collections, but the momentum to use LINQ for other external things (like SQL) seems to have slowed.