Well I would hope that MS would take what was available more than 10 years ago in VFP and improve on it for its flagship development product.

As for VFP, there's also this - "Query 2.22 - Query (SQL) just about anything" in the downloads area. Maybe not as powerful as LINQ, but, an enhancement.


>I agree. LINQ to SQL is the closest thing to VFP and even then, it's far more powerful than VFP's SQL implementation.
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>>So they involved the fox team, I was wrong on that regard; however, my original assertion stands, that linQ is no where near the select that VFP used, with anonymous types, lambdas and method chaining.