>>Hmmm, maybe because MS has admitted this already on various occasions ??
>>You're sticking your hand in the sand. Microsoft has been telling you this for a couple of years already.

>We've been using it heavily for huge amounts of data and haven't had much trouble except to implement JR's autospanning for really huge datasets; other wise, our data handling is just fine using nothing but SQL Server and ADO.

So MS is telling you lies?? I'm glad you can get by, by implementing straightforward datahandling. Others just want to do more complex things. I guess LINQ is not something you need.