Martin,
I'm not sure what do you mean with "if you disconnect from the data".I'm talking about "Linq to SQL" entities - i.e. the dLinq that VFP people have been told will deliver what they want. I guess it's confusing unless I say "Linq to SQL" every time, but it's a real mouthful. Or maybe I should talk about passing around "objects".
And I agree that there is no easy way to use any sort of entity in the middle tier and get the change tracking currently available with the Typed DataSet.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1