>I see nothing wrong if someone chooses to disagree as I would disagree about DS. I didn't understand at all what does "breaks down too often" mean. FYI Linq is not confined to VS and is not for Access - and I didn't know it would work against access anyway.
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>The "LINQ to SQL is more for the Access crowd" is a perjorative (but not inaccurate) comment that Access-type people who are accustomed to writing queries by dragging and dropping, seem to get more excited about linq to sql than anyone else.
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>Linq to SQL is OK for certain things but has many issues that have discouraged many developers. When I get a chance I'll post them.

It is not called inaccurate when accuracy is zero, no? I am not the type of person you describe and Linq To SQL is not about dragging and dropping. Anyway don't use it if you don't want to.
Cetin