>It is LINQ. If you weren't impressed, perhaps you don't have enough information on it. We've been doing similar stuff for years in VFP, but LINQ takes it futher. Image if you could do SELECT statements on collections, arrays, or XML.
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I'd love to be able to do just that, and that was what I hoped to see in LINQ.

SQL kind of like ..

Select field1, field2, field3 from ds.tables['mytable'] into tableds.tables['thistable'].

LINQ doesn't work the way T-SQL does. It does seem to start with SELECT. the similarity ends quickly after that.