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Using LINQ to… <insert platform/technology> Yet?
I know a lot of people have been talking about the LINQ technologies and approaches to working with SQL Server. The object-oriented approach, the more integrated view of the database from the context of application development and other benefits can be pretty strong. Microsoft has also been pushing the technology, demonstrating it extensively and talking about the benefits (we have sessions on this too in the vConference this week).
My question is – are you using this yet in production systems? The reason I ask is because I was reading through this post about not only LINQ, but also entity framework – and they’re talking about big changes (to put it mildly) and challenges for LINQ and even the entity framework.
I know building out the interface layers is probably one of the most challenging things facing Microsoft in creating tools for developers. There have been a number of different approaches to this over the years (makes me sound old!) but I really think there are some solid benefits to the LINQ approach.
What types of things are you using at this level for development? "Traditional" ADO-type interfaces? Something else?
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