For the last several months, I have repeatedly heard a rumor that there was no future for LINQ to SQL.  One reader even informed me that they heard LINQ to SQL was going to be snuffed and that because of this, their company changed architectural direction away from LINQ to SQL.

Concerned that the rumors may be either true and some developers are on a dead end path, or false and LINQ to SQL adoption may be suffering unnecessarily as a result of the rumors, I emailed Scott Guthrie at Microsoft to get his position on the future of LINQ to SQL.

Scott told me "Regarding LINQ to SQL, we definitely don't have plans to drop this.  We plan to continue to fully support this going forward.".

Scott continued with "I actually blog most of my samples using LINQ to SQL these days (I just did one last week on ASP.NET MVC form scenarios and used LINQ to SQL for the data access).  Expect to see me continue to blog more about it in the future.".

Here is a link to the blog post Scott refers to:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/09/02/asp-net-mvc-preview-5-and-form-posting-scenarios.aspx

If you read the blog post, you will see Scott using LINQ to SQL.

Further evidence of a commitment to LINQ to SQL is the work of Damien Guard, a Microsoft employee that works on LINQ to SQL.  Here is a link to his personal blog:  http://damieng.com/