LINQ is by no means dead. LINQ2SQL is pretty much dead, but there are LOTS of other things that LINQ is used for and they are very much alive and kicking.

>Depending on whose blog or whitepaper or translated from another language site or whatever you read, LINQ may or may not be a technology Microsoft is dead-ending.
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>I'm way past playing pin the tail on this mornings MUST HAVE brand new technology that may or may not be passe (EEW why are you using THAT?) by lunchtime.
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>TSQL has been around for a long time, and nothing I see says it will be gone today.
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>As long as I can make a connection to my SQL server, I can handle data using TSQL.
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>That's my story and I'm sticking to it.