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by cyphax 4419 days ago
Wouldn't that more or less be the Immediate Window that Visual Studio already has? Other than the multiple lines you mention. :)

I took a look at this to see if it can replace LinqPad, which is similar. LinqPad allows for more than C# alone (VB.net, SQL, C# and F#) but it has no code completion (unless you buy it) which CShell does have.

This seems like a useful tool!
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rikkus 4419 days ago
I highly recommend buying a LINQPad licence. I use it several times a day now and it's so much better with the extra features.

My favourite feature is the ability to point it at a DLL which has an entity data model in it - and then work with that model 'live' as if you were inside app code.

Normally, to do that, you'd have to put a breakpoint in your app and use VS's Immediate window - which doesn't support useful stuff like lambdas.

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sitharus 4419 days ago
The immediate window is fairly limited. It can't evaluate lambdas for example, so you can't quickly write linq.

Possibly more like linqpad?

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