Another deciding factor is LINQ to SQL's one-to-one mapping of tables to EntitySets. If you are in control of -- or can exert substantial influence on -- the SQL Server database schema and domain ...

Also addressing a big complaint that LINQ to SQL didn't let developers detach entities, PlinqO supports detaching of entities, he said. The templates are free to those CodeSmith tools users (the ...

The designers in both LINQ to SQL and ADO.NET Entity Framework have a number of limitations. In order to work around these limitations, products such as Huagati DBML/EDMX Tools have been developed ...

The internals of LINQ to SQL could, I think, form the nice foundation for a generic data mapping framework that would be complementary to ORM type frameworks like the Entity Framework.