All of this is the result of finally realizing that there is the need for C# (a low-level language) to be higher level with respect to data and database app development. A recent remark on this thread about VFP RV's "Black Box" says it all.

Personally, I would hate to have to write the heads-down-low-level code involved with automatically creating an optimized combined UpdateInsertDelete statement on a disconnected recordset having a combination of Updated, Inserted, and Deleted records. I have better things to do when developing an app.

I find it laughable that the "Einsteins" at Microsoft took so long to come to these conclusions while VFP has had these capabilities for years. Maybe Hejlslberg was too busy "defining a sandwich".



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>"Your program in many ways isn't just a specification of what you want done, but also in a lot of detail, how you want it done," explains Hejlslberg, who says LINQ frees developers from detailing how things get done. "There's room in the execution infrastructure to be smart about how the queries are executed."
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>Bill McCarthy, a Microsoft MVP who runs the small consulting firm, Total Environment in Australia, offers a clear analogy -- making a sandwich.
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>"You grab the bread, put some fillings in and that defines the sandwich, at least it should," McCarthy says. "Unfortunately, today programmers go into the kitchen, then start writing on the fridge their definition of a sandwich before they even start. With LINQ they'll just focus on making the sandwich."
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>It really summs up the difference between handling data in .NET and VFP
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>>If it's the link I'm thinking of, it was actually a magazine article that interviewed Anders. It's here http://reddevnews.com/features/article.aspx?editorialsid=707
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>>>I think perhaps you're doing quite a bit of implying. ;)
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>>>By the way, do you mean Craig Boyd or Craig Berntson? What link/quote do you mean?
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>>>Just because someone talks about "in-memory" datasets (which, in itself, we have today), doesn't necessarily mean disk-memory spanning. If you want to lobby for that, fine, but I would think you'd be looking for specific and explicit statements to support your it.