Is LINQ still relevant/viable

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Our small app dev group is allocated a training fund out of the yearly budget and we are looking into purchasing some training here in the near future.

Question is: Is LINQ still viable, or do you all feel it's a fad. We got to use the allocated training dollars, so is it worth putting money into LINQ knowledge, or is it becoming out-of-date or obsolete?

If you would recommend passing LINQ over, what would you recommend in its place that replaces it? Is there a better standard that isn't relevant to .NET only.

Thanks... :)

Posted 20-Apr-10 1:53am

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Pete O'Hanlon · Answer 1 · 2010-04-20T02:16:00

What aspect of Linq? Are you talking about Linq to SQL? Linq to XML? Linq to objects? Linq to datasets?

I suspect that you are referring to Linq to SQL (sometimes referred to as L2S), which seems to have been discontinued in favour of the Entity Framework. While it is true that no new functionality is being added to L2S, that doesn't mean that it has been got rid of.

If you are looking at a method to query databases, you could look at the Entity Framework or one of the many ORM tools such as NHibernate, Castle Active Record or eXpress Persistent Objects.