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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Choosing an Entity Framework API</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/diego/archive/2007/11/11/choosing-an-entity-framework-api.aspx</link><description>Last month, a question was asked in the ADO.NET Prerelease forum that went more or less like this: 
 
 Considering that there are many APIs you can use (Entity SQL, ObjectQuery&amp;lt;T&amp;gt;, LINQ to Entities), is there any guidance that could help me decide</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)</generator><item><title>re: Choosing an Entity Framework API</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/diego/archive/2007/11/11/choosing-an-entity-framework-api.aspx#6798939</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:33:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:6798939</guid><dc:creator>John Papa</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Diego,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Nice overview. Can you give some specifics on things that are supported in LINQ but not via eSQL and vice versa?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For example, I know eSQL cannot be used to perform DML while LINQ can. And dynamic queries can be written in eSQL, while LINQ is strongly typed. Any other important differentiations?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=6798939" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>