Craig,

>Look who wrote the article...that should explain this.

Right. Anders is the featured luminary speaker to introduce all of this new query stuff and get the largest rooms at the conference to explain LINQ and the C# approach.

Meanwhile, Yag and the VS Data team have been working very closely with the VB.NET people to bring some sanity to the syntax, and I suspect that Calvin and some of the Fox guys have been working to put the plumbing into place -- either for the query framework itself or for the VB interactions with it. (That's just reading between the lines of many previous statements about the Fox team helping to put Fox-like features into .NET and VB in particular.)

Paul Vick's session today doesn't get as much of a spotlight, but I think it will be the one to watch.