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Very nice! I have a "scratchpad" project for fiddling around with things, but this might wind up a permanent tab on my browser. Less overhead than a VS project,

Very nice! I have a "scratchpad" project for fiddling around with things, but this might wind up a permanent tab on my browser. Less overhead than a VS project, for sure.

upthedale 13y ago
Try Linqpad for a scratchpad too. Don't let the linq name fool you - its great for general purpose fiddling about. It has been truly indispensable when developing on .Net. http://www.linqpad.net http://www.linqpad.net
- ygra 13y ago
  I usually use PowerShell for fiddling which is often nice enough for trying out things with the BCL.
- taude 13y ago
  Back when I worked with .NET and Linq, I was a fan of this tool
pacaro 13y ago
If I'm in VS, I just use the F# interactive window. Even when I'm not coding in F# it's always nice to have a repl around. If I'm playing with data and still want to poke .Net objects, I use Sho[1] which gives an IronPython REPL and some decent numerics support [1] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/sho/ http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/sho/
MichaelGG 13y ago
Mono ships with a C# REPL: http://www.mono-project.com/CsharpRepl http://www.mono-project.com/CsharpRepl After using F# and having F# Interactive onhand, I cannot imagine working without a REPL. There's so many small things that become simple to check if you've got a REPL handy.