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Asked: 2026-05-11T19:55:52+00:00

So far I did not like EF. Although I liked the tools and how

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So far I did not like EF. Although I liked the tools and how easy it was to create certain types of mappings and relations, Other types were a pain and the Linq support in EF wasn’t so great (couln’t create my own filter extension methods).

Is the new EF in .Net 4.0 better. Given what I have stated so far is there a chance I will like it.

The reson I ask this is because I use linq2sql a lot and do not like the feeling that the platform I am using is about to go obsolete. I would like to upgrade to something that is as similar as possible to what I already have.

Thanks for your opinions

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    It’s only an opinion, but I believe that the new EF will be much improved. They will almost certainly have some kind of migration path from Linq to SQL. Whether it will look like Linq to SQL is another story. The two tools have somewhat different philosophies.

    While EF will be designed for enterprise scenarios, it is my hope that the next version will still be lightweight enough to serve as an adequate replacement for L2S in small application scenarios.

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