Tired of Querying in Antiquated SQL? Well, you don’t have to! With LINQPad, you can interactively query databases in a modern query language: LINQ. LINQPad includes an optimized engine to build typed data contexts on the fly, and includes drivers and formatters for:

• SQL Server, SQL Azure, SQL CE, Oracle, SQLite and MySQL
• Azure Table Storage & Azure Metadata
• OData / WCF Data Services, SharePoint, and Windows DataMarket
• Microsoft’s StreamInsight, ubercool Reactive Extensions and LINQ to Logs & Traces
• Third-party ORMs including Mindscape LightSpeed, DevArt’s LinqConnect, LLBLGen, DevExpress eXpress Persistent Objects and DevForce

LINQPad also supports all the LINQ APIs in the .NET Framework, including LINQ to XML, PLINQ, LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework. And when you need to, you can still query in good old-fashioned SQL — even if your back-end is SQLite, Oracle or MySQL. Without any heavy installations or oppressive EULAs! LINQPad is also a great way to learn LINQ: it comes loaded with 500 examples from the book, C# 7.0 in a Nutshell. There’s no better way to experience the coolness of LINQ and functional programming. Experience the Legendary Dump!

• LINQPad’s Dump method is famous for its capacity to eat almost anything!
• Tuned with numerous heuristics, it intelligently walks object graphs for the best possible output. It even turns lazy objects into hyperlinks and asynchronous values into placeholders whose content materializes in the future!
• Images and bitmaps render as images and bitmaps, and types from Reactive Extensions and Dataflow fully animate.
• Dump any WPF or Windows Forms object and it will actually render.
• And when you need a traditional data grid or debugger watch window, it’s there, too.