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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://mnug.net/cs2007sp2/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Search results matching tags 'Tools' and 'SQL'</title><link>http://mnug.net/cs2007sp2/search/SearchResults.aspx?o=DateDescending&amp;tag=Tools,SQL&amp;orTags=0</link><description>Search results matching tags 'Tools' and 'SQL'</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007 SP2 (Build: 20611.960)</generator><item><title>LINQPad - More than just a free LINQ tool!</title><link>http://mnug.net/cs2007sp2/forums/p/59/67.aspx#67</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:14:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b4203b9e-ff2c-47ee-bee0-15aa3ea24546:67</guid><dc:creator>James Hanauer</dc:creator><description>&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q.&lt;/strong&gt; Ever wish you could test a LINQ statement without VisualStudio?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q.&lt;/strong&gt; Ever wish you could query your databases using LINQ instead of SSMS and SQL?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q.&lt;/strong&gt; Ever wish you could query your file system, network, RSS, and more using LINQ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q.&lt;/strong&gt; Wouldn&amp;#39;t it be great if you could do all the above in a single application that is easy to use?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q.&lt;/strong&gt; Did you answer &amp;#39;NO&amp;#39; to any of the previous questions?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman" size="3"&gt;If you answered&amp;nbsp;&amp;#39;YES&amp;#39; to any of the above questions, then checkout LINQPad (&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.linqpad.net/"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman" size="3"&gt;http://www.linqpad.net/&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman"&gt;)!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt; 
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So What is LINQPad?&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman"&gt;LINQPad is a free, no installation required, application that can help you utilize and learn LINQ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman"&gt;It is also extensible, so if&amp;nbsp;you have custom&amp;nbsp;assemblies you want to use, just&amp;nbsp;load them up in LINQPad and code away.&amp;nbsp;And YES, it supports C#, VB and SQL.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman"&gt;I recommend watching the video tutorial, and then take &amp;quot;The LINQPad Challenge.&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman" size="3"&gt;Happy coding &lt;img src="http://mnug.net/emoticons/emotion-2.gif" alt="Big Smile" /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>