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I use Visual Studio Community 2015 on a Windows 10 computer. It seems that Microsoft has changed something in this VS about a year ago, so that I can no longer make and use databases and connect to them directly. Instead, I have to use datasets to connect, is this correct; or is there still a way to make databases in Visual Studio Community 2015 using Link to SQL and connect to them directly without using datasets?
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Linq to SQL should be available in VS 2015. I do not think the tools are installed by default. You will have to run the installer and install the tools. Please note the entity framework is the recommend to be used over linq to sql
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/data/adonet/ef/getting-started