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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't short lived.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/data/adon...

>>yarg+(OP)
LINQ 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+(OP)
Yeh. 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.

>>pluspl+W
Did you reply to the wrong person? Because I'm not the guy that didn't know that.

>>LeonB+41
I quite liked it in the 5 minutes it existed - it was just really easy to use.