LINQPad

LINQPad is an awesome aide to .NET Developers. Written by Joseph Albahari of LinqBridge and the C# In a Nutshell series fame. LINQPad allows the developer to write, compile and run C# or VB.NET Expressions, Statements of Programs outside of Visual Studio. Everything I am going to show you in this post can be done with Visual Studio simply by wrapping the text in a new console application, and adding references to the DLLs....

Update: I never did “fix” this problem, installing .NET 4 then using LINQPad 4 seems to work well. I found myself using LINQPad more often than creating console applications, so much so I dicided to make the small but worth while investment in the optional “Autocompletion” (Intelisense-like) component. The licence is great because I can have it installed on all three of my PCs without having to buy extra licences. I was figuring out the limits of the Math....