>Learn EF.

OK.... I'll put it on my learning list.

I am moving (nolens volens) to the new MS paradigms. Slowly. The advantage of doing this slowly is that there are a few paradigms that I missed :)

Thanks.

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>>I will ... but have not had the opportunity yet; My backend is an access db, and I'm perfectly happy generating my sqls in VB string variables passed ado.net.
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>EF supports a lot of back ends so I though Access was an option but after googling a bit I find what you probably did that EF and Access don't play well together.
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>( boy, I'd sure be tempted to consider if SQL Express would handle what access is doing )