There is a team working on it, but it will go nowhere. The ADO.NET team even said Entity Framework is their new recommended data access solution for LINQ to relational scenarios.

>LinqToSql is not dead. There is a team still working on it, but Entity Framework will get more attention.
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>>Not only that, but what if Entity Framework goes the way of LinqToSql? It seems to be a good practice to drag your feet for a few months/years before committing to a methodology change, especially when Microsoft is involved.