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LINQ – First Impressions

LINQ is pretty good! I’ve used plenty of ORM tools in the past, and LINQ offers a nice user experience. I spent an hour hooking up Northwind and dragging tables onto the design surface in order to generate some code and the created objects offer some cool features.
The LINQ syntax does feel a bit like writing inline SQL though, and doesn’t feel as ‘objecty’ as the entities thrown up by Subsonic. The use of the DataContext classes *seem* to offer transactions out the bag, and the hierarchy of methods and properties feel well thought out and usable.

I’m going to do a little ‘Learn LINQ’ series of posts later in the week, so stay tuned.