>Lots of times I've said 'I don't use such-and-such' because it can't do so-and-so' only to be told that it can. And if I'd never made the statement in the first place I might neve have found out. :-}

Yep. Good point!

>The designer basically creates a method (with default name the same as the SPROC name) on the DataContext with the method taking that same parameters that are required by the SPROC. So you don't use a select to retreive. More like:

>List<things> = DataContext.ProcedureName(param1, param2);

This link describes better and in more detail:http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/08/16/linq-to-sql-part-6-retrieving-data-using-stored-procedures.aspx

Good article (Scott is always a good read). I should probably take the time to explore this a little more. I don't think we'll be changing our Framework any time soon (lots of reasons for that decision, I won't bore you with details), but it might be good to get a better feel for how this might work for us in the future.

Thanks for the info Viv! =0)

~~Bonnie