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LINQ to SQL in Beta 2

Wed, August 15, 2007, 10:56 AM under Orcas | LINQ
LINQ to SQL has had some positive changes in VS 2008 Beta 2.

The most significant is that it is now faster (for background to this, see Rico's post) and has numerous bug fixes. Another very visible change is that for customisation, partial methods are utilised everywhere (LINQ to SQL was one of the drivers behind that feature). An aesthetic tool change is that when you map your database to the auto generated classes, you do not add a "LINQ to SQL File" item, instead you add a "LINQ to SQL Classes". It also has a much more professional icon rather than the old one that looked like it was drawn by... me! Here is the new one:


Opening System.Data.Linq.dll in your favourite dissasembler will reveal quite a few refactorings, but instead of looking inside out, I'll hand it over to Dinesh that has a fuller change list.
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