Ability to reuse function calls to datacontext

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I am new to VB. I am trying to reduce the coding needed for datacontext statements in LINQ. I need to use a large number of these statements which are all the same except for the table that is accessed. The statement I am using is as follows:

Public Shared Function GetEmployeeTable() As _
System.Data.Linq.Table(Of Employee)

Dim dc As New NorthwindDataClassesDataContext()
Return dc.GetTable(Of Employee)()

End Function

I would like to use this statement over and over by using a variable instead of hard coding the table name. All the LINQ examples I have seen hard code the table name (and use a separate datacontext function for each table). I have tried using variables in every way that I can think of.

Is there a way to include variables in these statements so that I can call the same function to access different tables? If so, can you give me an example

Thanks for your help.

Larry Toone