>>Alot of people say that Data is native to the CLR
>Who says that?

I think its more of a concept, you just have to think that ADO is native to the CLR too. But do you see what I'm getting at?

>How does it work? What VB.NET command is used for that? Why did the .NET version of VBScript lose the EVAL function?

Don't know how it works or anything, but see my response to Craig.