From the course: .NET Essentials: Working with LINQ

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Initial tour of LINQPad

Initial tour of LINQPad

- We are going to take a look at the LINQPad user interface. First of all, let's talk about versions. I'm using LINQPad 5. You can download the free edition of LINQPad at linqpad.net. There's also a LINQPad 6, which is the version that works with .net core. I am using a licensed premium edition and the main difference between my licensed copy and the free edition is that I have IntelliSense and auto-complete when I'm typing code in the code editor window. So let's take a look at the interface. Here we have the standard items like there's a tabs across the top, there's an editor here, I can write some C-sharp code in here. The type of code that you write is based on this drop down here. So you can write C sharp expressions, statements and programs. You can also work with visual basic, SQL and F Sharp. I'll explain the differences between these three later in this course. You see I've written a little bit of code…

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