I used to use this a few years back when my company was paying for it, but nowadays I dont work too much with dotnet but for all playground little things I use ideone.com it does it all in the browser.
LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground
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#22Honestly surprised that Microsoft have not bought this up and integrated it into Visual Studio. LINQPad is gold.
I am glad that they haven't. Usually only a butchered version gets integrated or it gets abandoned after a while.
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#23Honestly 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.
It's because Microsoft isn't really serious with C#. For years it has advertised other languages (e.g. JS on WinRT) or runtime (wasm), support in VS Code is still rather interesting, UI frameworks were never made truly multiplatform and the one which supposedly is is still buggy as hell (maui). C# 12 is a pile of crap (C# 13 looks interesting tho).
So in the end it's good all those tools stay independent and focused.
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#24I 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()); If I remember correctly, it also let you compare the LINQ query against the transpiled SQL so you could try t…
I haven't used the .NET Core version but the old one 100% had a view to see the generated sql.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It's because Microsoft isn't really serious with C#. For years it has advertised other languages (e.g. JS on WinRT) or runtime (wasm), support in VS Code is still rather interesting, UI frameworks were never made truly multiplatform and the one which supposedly is is still buggy as hell (maui). C# 12 is a pile of crap (C# 13 looks interesting tho). So in the end it's good all those tools stay independent and focused.
I don't think it's true that C# isn't taken seriously at Microsoft - some of the frameworks on top of C# come and go, but I worked on JS on WinRT briefly and can say it was never, ever "taken seriously" in the way the core C# language and runtime is. If you want to work with azure or windows, C# will be the obvious best choice for the foreseeable future, and if you want to work with C# outside of those verticals I don't think it's a bad or dead end choice either.
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#26This blog has some useful Linqpad tips: https://www.danclarke.com/linqpad-tips-and-tricks
In particular, keyboard shortcuts to toggle visibility on the different sub-windows, and using the Util class to prompt for a password I find to be useful.
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#27I like that multiple databases can be used in the same scripting context. http://www.linqpad.net/FAQ.aspx#cross-database
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#28Unfortunately, they still haven't gotten around to making it usable outside of Windows https://forum.linqpad.net/discussion/1935/installation-on-ma...
I don't bother making anything run on linux unless it's meant to run as a service. It's just not worth the time and trouble to test it on multiple operating systems, probably with different libraries, just for what is a very vocal minority.
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#29It's a nice program, but you need to pay to update every version of .net, which is every year.
I used to purchase premium version (single user) and the upgrade option is $97.50 instead of $125 for new license.
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#30Unfortunately, they still haven't gotten around to making it usable outside of Windows https://forum.linqpad.net/discussion/1935/installation-on-ma...
I don't bother making anything run on linux unless it's meant to run as a service. It's just not worth the time and trouble to test it on multiple operating systems, probably with different libraries, just for what is a very vocal minority.
I have a really random winforms project I opened up the debug build of on Linux with Mono and had 0 issues. The bar can be very low.