Frans Bouma

It's now left up to the user to cache the meta-data and we can do that ourselves with a static resource very easily. This allows faster context creation and thus...

Add proper prefetch path/ eager loading functionality to surpass the limited LoadWith() functionality currently in linq to sql as LoadWith only loads 1 level deep and falls back to lazy...

Add the ability to specify a TypeConverter derived class for a mapping to be used at runtime to convert values from/to different types when reading from /writing to the DB....

Currently usage of SqlGeography etc. is not supported. This is not that hard to add.

Add support for sequences to be specified as sources for identity fields in the mapping meta data. SQL Server 2012+, Oracle and other databases require this support.

(requires #6 and #8 to be implemented) Add Oracle support for DML queries. If these work, add Oracle support for DDL queries, however this is has no high priority at...

Currently there's no NEWSEQUENTIALID() support in the runtime. Does require query batching, which might not be present as well, as the value inserted has to be read using a scalar...

(requires #3 being implemented) SQL Server 2012 introduces a new, simpler way to do paging. This should be added.

The reference source hasn't been shipped with any tests, and Microsoft isn't going to provide any tests as well (rumor has it Linq to Sql has over 15 million tests)....

Add an Async API to the main API for the general methods expected to be async, like ToListAsync() and the like. The methods to make Async can be borrowed from...