Is using LINQ to SQL that bad?

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Good day all, I have a little problem that i need your advise.. i wrote an application using LINQ to SQL instead of using Entity Framework .. while reading some articles online i noticed that linq to sql is not that cool...please should I redevelop the project using entity framework or i should just leave it like that as the application ia working perfectly fine . i am not that conversant with entity framework and its logic..

please what should i do! .. thanks for your wonderfull time..

Posted 21-May-14 7:37am

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Maciej Los 21-May-14 14:35pm

If it works for you, then do nothing!

joshrduncan2012 21-May-14 15:16pm

If you put your response as a solution, I'll +5 it.

Maciej Los 21-May-14 15:17pm

;)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 21-May-14 14:50pm

This request is very uncertain. It all depends. It's not even clear if you have any real concerns or not.
—SA

[no name] 21-May-14 14:57pm

All the "cool" kids use it. Don't worry about non-existent problems.

Maciej Los 21-May-14 15:17pm

:laugh:

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Maciej Los · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-21T09:28:00

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Please, read all comments to your question. As i mentioned: 'if it works for you, then do nothing', but... Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov is right: it depends on many factors...

I'd suggest to read this: LINQ to SQL vs Entity framework [ Which one is better with .net 4.0][^] to find out major differences between them.

Subjects related to above article:
Linq to SQL[^]
Linq to Entities[^]

Posted 21-May-14 9:28am

Maciej Los

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joshrduncan2012 21-May-14 15:37pm

Nicely put! :) My +5.

Maciej Los 21-May-14 15:49pm

Thank you again ;)

Maciej Los 21-May-14 16:16pm

BTW: i haven't see reputation points from you ;(

joshrduncan2012 21-May-14 16:33pm

What do you mean?

Maciej Los 22-May-14 1:46am

I haven't seen your 5. Now, everything is OK.

Member 10835026 22-May-14 1:18am

thank you, i have read them, but i think i would want to gradually start migrating them, however, knowing that i am having an existing database, is it better to use entity framework designer to generate the database(edmx) thanks

Maciej Los 22-May-14 1:48am

Why do you want to generate new database?

Member 10835026 22-May-14 2:22am

not that i want to generate a different database ..but i want to use LINQ with entity framework.. thats the reason and am equally thinking of migrating to 4.5 .. thanks