ASP.NET 3.5 will have a LinqDataSource
I've been delivering a "What's New for Web Developers in Visual Studio 2008 & the Microsoft ASP.NET Futures" session over the last few months to various customers and partners. All of the features / demos I have shown were based on Visual Studio 2008 Beta 1. When Beta 2 is released, there will be a few features you most likely have not seen. One of them is the LinqDataSource control. Scott Guthrie just published LINQ to SQL (Part 4 - Updating our Database) which (in addition other things) is a walkthrough of the LinqDataSource control. I will be delivering What's New for Web Developers in Visual Studio 2008 & the Microsoft ASP.NET Futures on Wednesday, July 25th, as part of my team's July Webcasts. Wednesday's webcast will be the first time I demo the Beta 2 features.
-Marc