title: ADO.NET or Linq to SQL?
body: <p>I am building a forum, and it has got 4 tables: Users, Threads, Comments, Topics.</p>
  
  <p>I established the connection and the pages.. I started using the ADO.net way to insert data and select data..but then I found that to make more complex manipulations i need to know SQL. So I was looking for another way, and I found that I can open Visual Studio 2010, add Linq to SQL file that produced object relational designer. I read about how to write code, and I saw that I simply need to use a using statement with <code>DataContext</code> object with a simple code to update, add, delete rows in the tables.</p>
  
  <p>I wanted to know, what are the advantages of using one way of querying over another?</p>