{"id":366,"date":"2008-05-18T22:52:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T21:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.galhano.com\/blog\/?p=366"},"modified":"2008-05-18T23:02:11","modified_gmt":"2008-05-18T22:02:11","slug":"linqpad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"LINQPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.galhano.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2008\/05\/linqpadlogo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-367 alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"linqpadlogo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.galhano.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2008\/05\/linqpadlogo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Tired of querying in antiquated SQL?<\/h3>\n<p>Well, you don&#8217;t have to!  <strong>LINQPad<\/strong> lets you interactively query SQL  databases in a <em>modern query language<\/em>: <strong>LINQ. <\/strong>Kiss goodbye to SQL Management Studio!<\/p>\n<p>LINQPad supports everything in C# 3.0 and Framework 3.5:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LINQ to SQL<\/li>\n<li>LINQ to Objects<\/li>\n<li>LINQ to XML<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>LINQPad is also a great way to learn LINQ: it comes preloaded with 200 examples  from my book,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albahari.com\/nutshell\/\">C# 3.0 in a Nutshell<\/a>.   There&#8217;s no better way to experience the coolness of LINQ and <em>functional programming<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And LINQPad is more than just a LINQ query tool: it&#8217;s a <em><strong>code snippet IDE<\/strong><\/em>.  Instantly execute any C# 3 or VB 9 expression or statement block!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best of all, LINQPad is free and needs no installation<\/strong>: just download and run.   The executable is only 2MB and is self-updating.<\/p>\n<p><em>website: <a title=\"http:\/\/www.linqpad.net\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linqpad.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.linqpad.net\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tired of querying in antiquated SQL? Well, you don&#8217;t have to! LINQPad lets you interactively query SQL databases in a modern query language: LINQ. Kiss goodbye to SQL Management Studio! LINQPad supports everything in C# 3.0 and Framework 3.5: LINQ to SQL LINQ to Objects LINQ to XML LINQPad is also a great way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"close","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sql-server","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}