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It was in 3.5 only. If they've replaced it with something else in the last decade and a half that does not mean that they didn't get rid of it, or that it wasn
by yarg 2y ago
It was in 3.5 only.
If they've replaced it with something else in the last decade and a half that does not mean that they didn't get rid of it, or that it wasn't short lived.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/data/adonet/sql/linq/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/data/adon...
- plusplusungood 2y agoLINQ is not the same as LINQ-to-SQL. The former is a language feature, the latter a library (one of many) that uses that feature.
- yarg 2y agoDid you reply to the wrong person? Because I'm not the guy that didn't know that.
- LeonB 2y agoYeh. Linq to sql was a much more lightweight extension than EF, and was killed due to internal warring at MS. Database people were investing a lot of time and energy on doing things “properly” with EF, and this scrappy little useful tool, linq to sql, was seen as a competitor.
- yarg 2y agoI quite liked it in the 5 minutes it existed - it was just really easy to use.