Mike,

The buzz here at the PDC around LINQ is huge!! This is a big deal...it may take some time to sink in... and see some demos. See Rod Paddock's blog for more. There will also be some Channel 9 videos coming, including one with Ken behind the camera interviewing the VB team.


>Not really. It is cool to have a query language for data in a variety of formats, but can this technology do anything more for than save me a few lines of code?
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>This looks like a total waste of time to me.
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>Let's recapp:
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>2000: .NET is awesome because its an all-purpose OO platform
>2005: .NET can now execute data queries without using objects
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>Amazing!
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>Not really.
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>Unless I'm missing something. Anyone?