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LINQPad: Why I love it and why you should, too

Eros Fratini on September 13, 2019

Loving the tool I started using LINQPad something more than 10 years ago, and it followed me through endless machines and system install...
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JustinKaffenberger

One thing I recommend is configuring your queries folder to point to a git repo on your machine. This gives you quick access to all of your queries while at the same time making it easy to push those to a remote repo to share with others on your team.

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Drew Knab

This is great and I love LINQPad. I've started trying to shift myself over to csi/fsi from LINQPad though. It's really nice to have a small REPL shell right in Visual Studio, I've found not switching context has been kinda helpful in not drifting off task.

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Josiah Bradbury

I use expressions and statements all the time, mainly for a lot of database querying. Or in the case of statements, making a lot of .net scripts.

Or when I need to experiment and figure out datetime.tostring() formats quick