>>>Craig, while JB is incorrect and your bet would be right (that the developers knew about Fox)....the ACTUAL influence of VFP over LINQ is somewhat debatable..
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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.
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>I object the idea that Linq is nowhere near the VFP if you meant VFP is better.
>I would agree if you meant it is no where near because Linq is much better than VFP.
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>IMHO it is apples to oranges. You can only compare IQueryable part of Linq a bit and even there Linq is better.
>Cetin

I meant that LinQ is leaps and bounds more powerful than VFP's select.