{"id":127,"date":"2008-04-15T20:01:20","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T01:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/127"},"modified":"2008-04-15T22:12:29","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T03:12:29","slug":"linqpad-more-than-just-a-linq-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/127","title":{"rendered":"LINQPad – More than just a LINQ editor"},"content":{"rendered":"

I stumbled across this .NET 3.5+ utility today, LINQPad<\/a>. I think I’ll be putting this on every development machine I control — it’s been very handy today.<\/p>\n

\"image\"<\/a> <\/p>\n

At first I thought it was just a live LINQ viewer\/editor (which is useful on it’s own!). But, in order to support that type of functionality, it supports a wide variety of code snippets that you might want to experiment with, without the hassle of starting Visual Studio. <\/p>\n

The syntax coloring editor (no Intellisense yet, sorry) makes editing code a decent experience. Once you’ve typed in your code snippet or LINQ statement, hit F5 to test it. The results appear in the bottom half of the application. I believe through extension methods, it adds a "Dump" method to IEnumerable objects so that they become nicely formatted in the resulting display (see the screen shot for an example).<\/p>\n

Here was the C# code I used in the screen shot above:<\/p>\n

Console.WriteLine(<\/span>"WiredPrairie"<\/span>);\n<\/span>var <\/span>website = <\/span>new <\/span>{ Href = <\/span>"www.wiredprairie.us"<\/span>, \n    Topics=<\/span>"Coding,Usability,Software,Photography,Java" <\/span>};\n\nIEnumerable<<\/span>string<\/span>> topics = <\/span>from <\/span>topic <\/span>in <\/span>website.Topics.Split(<\/span>','<\/span>) \n    <\/span>where <\/span>topic.IndexOf(<\/span>"Java"<\/span>) == -<\/span>1 <\/span>select <\/span>topic;\ntopics.Dump();\n<\/span><\/pre>\n
Results:<\/p>\n
\"image\"<\/a> <\/p>\n
It’s free. Oddly, there’s no installer, or click once for the application (given it’s part of a book on C#, I would have thought a click-once installer would have made sense … but I won’t complain loudly since it’s free.)<\/p>\n
I’m not sure what to do with this button:<\/p>\n
\"image\"<\/a> <\/p>\n
I can’t get it to display anything … if someone figures it out, post a comment or send me a link if you don’t mind! <\/p>\n
I looked up one of the snippet compilers I used to install, "Snippet Compiler" (<\/em>here<\/em><\/a>). There’s an "alpha" release for .NET 3.5. I stopped using that tool a few years ago when it started to "bloat" and do too much. It looks like a full editor now…<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I stumbled across this .NET 3.5+ utility today, LINQPad. I think I’ll be putting this on every development machine I control — it’s been very handy today. At first I thought it was just a live LINQ viewer\/editor (which is useful on it’s own!). 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