LINQ-to-Entities - The Pain
So enter LINQ-to-Entities – the ADO.NET team’s “answer” to LINQ-to-SQL. Unfortunately, while LINQ-to-SQL was a wonderful, polished jewel of functionality that was a nice example of IJW (“it just worked”), LINQ-to-Entities seems to be a product of Architecture Astronauts who would rather bamboozle us with their cleverness than actually provide useful solutions.
in reference to:"So enter LINQ-to-Entities – the ADO.NET team’s “answer” to LINQ-to-SQL. Unfortunately, while LINQ-to-SQL was a wonderful, polished jewel of functionality that was a nice example of IJW (“it just worked”), LINQ-to-Entities seems to be a product of Architecture Astronauts who would rather bamboozle us with their cleverness than actually provide useful solutions."
- hackification.com - Rediscover the Joy of Coding :: LINQ-to-Entities: The Blackberry Storm of ORMs? (view on Google Sidewiki)