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

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

.NET ASP.NET C# LINQ

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.

3 Comments

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

Gregor Suttie - Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:21:02 AM

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.

Richard Fencel - Monday, March 31, 2008 3:26:23 AM

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

dwahlin - Wednesday, April 2, 2008 5:50:08 AM

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