Hi Sorin,
>Actually, even though I think that "IN" in "LINQ" for Fox may be misplaced, and if I understand correctly your message, you could take a two-step approach SELECT ... FROM whatever INTO CURSOR then SCAN cursor and SCATTER NAME, naturally, into object.

Guess I need to be a bit more explicit to drive home my point:
VFP *has been having* *partial* LINQ for years (decades? ;-))!
VERY mundane. ;-)

USE adr
SELECT * FROM adr WHERE id="A"

If you query a SQL server though, you pass a query string, which defeats Intellisense, syntax checking,... (Thus the earlier idea to make the [] delimiters 'transparent'.)

The idea is to make querying remote data (look) more INtegrated by allowing the connection / handle in the FROM clause.

VFP then would pass the SQL statement as a string to the server for execution.

One could possibly make this fully LINQ by allowing objects (like collections, famously implementing IEnumerable ;-)) and XML in the FROM.

I´m sure a lot of work on the core engine, so for VFP X. 'vbg'

>My daughter (who's watching me type this message) would like to know if Neumarkt is close to Innsbruck, where we had such a great ski vacation this year. :)

I´m actually an hour from Salzburg and used to ski / board a lot. Don´t do so much any more. Are you planning to come again?
Cheers
G