Want to Learn How to Use LINQ? Check out LINQPad!

I was catching up with some of the people I follow on Twitter tonight (as a side note, I used to think Twitter was a waste of time but I'm actually finding it useful now days) and noticed that Scott Cate listed a link to a free tool called LINQPad.  Wow...I wish I would've known about this tool a few months back when I was working on different LINQ queries for an application.  It really simplifies building queries and also happens to be a great way to learn the LINQ syntax as well.  It was created by Joseph Albahari for the C# 3.0 in a Nutshell book.

Here's a screenshot from the Website.  You can download LINQPad at http://www.linqpad.net.  I'm really impressed with it so far. 

On a related note, if you're interested in seeing how LINQ, Lambdas and LINQ with Stored procedures can be used, you can download the sample ASP.NET 3.5 application I put together that will help get you started with the different options available in .NET 3.5.

Published Monday, March 17, 2008 10:40 PM by dwahlin
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# re: Want to Learn How to Use LINQ? Check out LINQPad!

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:21 AM by Gregor Suttie

As we say over here - Linqpad is the mutts nuts! - highly recommend it its really useful.

# re: Want to Learn How to Use LINQ? Check out LINQPad!

Sunday, March 30, 2008 11:26 PM by Richard Fencel

I have designed a similar product called Q-Expose.  This product shows the I/O of each step of a LINQ query.  It differs from LinqPad in that it works directly with your application. You can preview it at www.fencel.com.  Thanks for listening.

# re: Want to Learn How to Use LINQ? Check out LINQPad!

Wednesday, April 02, 2008 1:50 AM by dwahlin

Thanks for commenting Richard.  I'll have to check out your Q-Expose tool.