Well, thanks for replying, I appreciate it. YAG's post was from early '05, when the early CTPs for VS2005 were making it out the door.

1. We've made good strides with the scalability of ADO.NET datasets in VS2005. Not there yet, but you'll see the start of it (thousands of local rows will work fine now).

Yes, dataSets are often an order of magnitude faster in VS2005 (compared to '03) MS re-wrote the indexing engine for ADO.NET.

2. Memory/disk spanning is one of the top things on my personal list for ADO.NET.

Yes, a top priority item on his personal list. (and I see JB said the exact same thing). I love YAG, his codebook and other work earned him a lifetime subscription to my hall of fame.

But my honest question today - either to YAG or to anyone "in the know", will this functionality make it in? Will it be part of LINQ, or part of the LINQ to Relational stack (not LINQ itself), and will it only be related to datasets?

Kevin