I went to a class/presentation on WPF and Silverlight. Linq is being presented a major piece of the puzzle to creating apps with Silverlight.

>I won't argue about the power of LINQ. It has the potential to change the way applications are written.
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>>Hi Craig,
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>>Fine, but despite of that, the power Linq brings to .Net developers in scenarios that are database agnostic are fantastic! Something that have no precedents in pure imperative languages, such as Java, C/C++, Delphi or the first versions of C# and VB.NET.
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>>The perception we have of the Query expressions in VFP are mostly database related, but Linq brings new paradigms into the .Net world that, IMHO, are not fairly comparable with VFP capabilities.
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>>Beyhond that, Linq (Query Expressions for that matter) are purerly syntatic sugar resolved by the compilers (C# and VB) as a series of method calls. When we put the new language resources such as extension methods and lambda expression in context, we realize that the true power of Linq is not on the fact that we can now use SQL-like syntax into the language, but on the fact that we now have a more functional and declarative way of doing things in such languages.
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>>Best Regards,