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LINQ != LINQ to SQL
published 612 days, 10 hours, 10 minutes ago posted by http://jmaddrey.myopenid.com/http://jmaddrey.myopenid.com/ 615 days, 9 hours, 32 minutes ago
Sunday, September 19, 2010 2:14:31 PM GMT Thursday, September 16, 2010 2:52:38 PM GMT

I've spoken with multiple developers who interpet "LINQ" as LINQ to SQL.  Yes, they are certainly related, but LINQ is not just LINQ to SQL.  LINQ to SQL is likely the most well known LINQ Provider, although its only a small part of the LINQ umbrella.  In fact, LINQ to SQL will likely fade into the sunset, as Microsoft will no longer be enhancing it, but rather focusing on the Entity Framework. 

LINQ provides an abstraction for querying data, regardless of where that data resides.  Consider the fol...

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