Also addressing a big complaint that LINQ to SQL didn't let developers detach entities, PlinqO supports detaching of entities, he said. The templates are free to those CodeSmith tools users (the ...

TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX: VS 2008 [Express] SP-1, VB.NET 9.0, C# 3.0, SQL Server 2005/2008, ASP.NET LINQ to SQL celebrated its first anniversary on Nov. 11, 2008. As Microsoft's first object/relational ...

Tim Mallalieu, the program manager for both LINQ to SQL and the Entity Framework, says Microsoft anticipated the backlash but maintains both data access interfaces will be better off for this move.

So I'm playing around with Visual Studio 2010 while we think about moving our projects to it, and I was trying to make a new Silverlight 4 app, but when I go to add any kind of of data models (ADO ...