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LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground

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Post by wofo » Sun, Jun 23, 2024, 8:02 PM UTC

LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground
linqpad.net

Re: LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground

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Post by smokeydoe » Sun, Jun 23, 2024, 8:05 PM UTC

Also check out free open source alternative RoslynPad. https://roslynpad.net/

Re: LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground

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Post by rjbwork » Sun, Jun 23, 2024, 9:19 PM UTC

Great piece of software that I basically use for scripting/notebooking. Been writing C# so long it's my lingua franca and this tool lets me do pretty much everything (except actual shell scripting for use on e.g. build servers and deployment pipelines) in C#.

Re: LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground

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Post by CodeCompost » Sun, Jun 23, 2024, 9:23 PM UTC

Honestly surprised that Microsoft have not bought this up and integrated it into Visual Studio. LINQPad is gold.

Re: LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground

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Post by lf-non » Sun, Jun 23, 2024, 9:39 PM UTC

Also https://github.com/waf/CSharpRepl - if you want a conventional repl, also cross platform.

Re: LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground

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Post by atlantic » Sun, Jun 23, 2024, 9:49 PM UTC

CodeCompost wrote: post #4

Honestly surprised that Microsoft have not bought this up and integrated it into Visual Studio. LINQPad is gold.

There is already a C# REPL built into Visual Studio, called C# Interactive. It takes a bit of getting used to, but it's not bad at all.

Re: LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground

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Post by recursive » Sun, Jun 23, 2024, 9:51 PM UTC

atlantic wrote: post #6

CodeCompost wrote: post #4

Honestly surprised that Microsoft have not bought this up and integrated it into Visual Studio. LINQPad is gold.

There is already a C# REPL built into Visual Studio, called C# Interactive. It takes a bit of getting used to, but it's not bad at all.

Not even in the same zip code.

Re: LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground

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Post by mattmanser » Sun, Jun 23, 2024, 10:07 PM UTC

atlantic wrote: post #6

CodeCompost wrote: post #4

Honestly surprised that Microsoft have not bought this up and integrated it into Visual Studio. LINQPad is gold.

There is already a C# REPL built into Visual Studio, called C# Interactive. It takes a bit of getting used to, but it's not bad at all.

Echoing the other comment, personally I find the C# interactive really frustrating to use. So close and yet so far.

I often find it quicker/less frustrating to just fire up a new console app project.

Last time I tried to use it I think it was even running an old version of .Net and you have to remember to switch the version.

Re: LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground

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Post by celdon25 » Sun, Jun 23, 2024, 10:24 PM UTC

Unfortunately, they still haven't gotten around to making it usable outside of Windows

https://forum.linqpad.net/discussion/1935/installation-on-ma...

Re: LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground

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Post by celdon25 » Sun, Jun 23, 2024, 10:26 PM UTC

smokeydoe wrote: post #2

Also check out free open source alternative RoslynPad. https://roslynpad.net/

The only reason I would use something like LINQPad is for the syntax tree and semantic analysis support, for compiler extensions. With a name like RoslynPad, seems funny that such a feature would be missing from that "alternative"