The program is gold. It enables you to speedily and almost effortlessly build up code, in a way that I haven't seen elsewhere.
LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground
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#12Honestly 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.
I'd say it is pretty bad[1], but the F# REPL is decent at least.
Re: LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground
#13https://github.com/tareqimbasher/NetPad is a cross-platform C# playground, not as developed as LINQPad but gratis and libre (MIT License).
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#14Thought with a name like that it was for the iPad, wish it was...
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#15Also 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"
If you'd like to explore syntax tree and related IOperations, there is a VS Code extension https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=333fred.... which lets you do just that, it has been very handy for writing source generators.
(though I end up disabling it to reduce extra pressure on language server when it's unneeded)
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#16I've been a happy paid user of LINQPad for over 8 years now. Love it, well worth the price.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
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"
If you'd like to explore syntax tree and related IOperations, there is a VS Code extension https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=333fred.... which lets you do just that, it has been very handy for writing source generators. (though I end up disabling it to reduce extra pressure on language server when it's unneeded)
Again, only on Windows.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you'd like to explore syntax tree and related IOperations, there is a VS Code extension https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=333fred.... which lets you do just that, it has been very handy for writing source generators. (though I end up disabling it to reduce extra pressure on language server when it's unneeded)
Again, only on Windows.
I suppose my ARM-based Mac comes with weird Windows that looks like macOS!
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#19Honestly surprised that Microsoft have not bought this up and integrated it into Visual Studio. LINQPad is gold.
That is true of so many products. Notepad++, Paint.Net, Everything search.
Products which would cost Microsoft absolute peanuts to acquire. Or even just use that as a model and rip it off entirely with an in house version.
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#20I haven't used Linqpad in a long time but one of the most useful features it had was the ability to add connections to your SQL Server databases and then write quick throwaway LINQ/Lambda style syntax queries against it, e.g.
radios.GroupBy(x=> x.Channel).Select(x=>x.OrderBy(y=>y.Price)).Select(x=>x.First());