holy crap-balls! as my friend jason beaudreau would say...If you have not checked out LinQ, please do, in fact do nothing else but go and learn this. as a meta-data guy, this extension of C# has unreal potential. having the ability to do impact analysis across the data layer, object layer and event data is fast becoming a reality. not that it wasn’t there before, this just simplifies the development of these types of solutions. imagine a visualization debugger, that also shows upstream and downstream impacts in real-time. HUH?

Read about it hear...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/future/linq/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/linqprojectovw.asp

Install it from here...

http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/a/4/2a405b66-1b1c-4fca-bfbf-007aad63d307/LINQ%20VB%20Preview.msi