http://msmvps.com/blogs/bill/archive/2008/03/27/can-t-get-no-vb-action.aspxPaul Stovell finally notices the lack of support for statement lambdas in VB9 . Unfortunately Vb9 only supports lambda expressions such as can be expressed in today's expression trees. .NET 4.0 will most probably include support for lambda statementsenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)