Mike,

>Seems pretty worthless so far.

Here is an interesting interview with Yag and others on the VB approach to LINQ.

http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=9776/ddj1126793370067/

This may fill in a few blanks for you. Note particularly LINQ's ability to query across any data, whether in database, XML or any structure with IEnumerable interface (collections, arrays, lists, etc).

Combine that with the ability to further query with SQL into the initial result set and you get something more Fox-like.

Combine that with VB.NET's more straightforward SQL syntax built into the language (compared to the more convoluted and complex C# approach) and you get a VB that is more Fox-like, both in language and in the concept of queryable cursors.

I also found this article very interesting in its explanation of how they are going to allow cutting and pasting XML docs right into the code and have VB automatically know how to work with that. (That's not LINQ specific, but is just a VB language enhancement.)