>Craig,
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>>I guess you haven't been following what the gurus are saying about LINQ. These are people that have been playing with the bits and already found out what a great technology it is.
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>I talked with a good many MVPs last week whose take on LINQ is "it's just syntactic sugar," nothing more -- nothing I can't already do with more code. :-) Others see the implications a bit more clearly of the impact this new stuff can have on productivity.


But that is really like saying the VFP DML doesn't provide anything I can't do without it if I was willing to write more code...

Markus