LinqPad

Today Vin (http://twitter.com/vinayakkamat) pointed me to LinqPad, quickly found it too good. Especially if you are a C# guy who want to query against your data in a C# way.

And you can download LinqPad from here http://www.linqpad.net/

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 learn LINQ: it comes preloaded with 200 examples 

Here is a good demo to start with http://oreilly.com/pub/e/909

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Four open source ASP.NET Web Apps

About Week End Hacks - Most weekends I do some digging around new and emerging technology and geek stuff. I do this by picking the links I bookmarked, or by going through the tweets I Favorited in Twitter.


This week I'll be evaluating four .NET open source projects to keep them in the back of my mind, for quick implementations.

• Dash commerce - http://dashcommerce.org/ - ASP .NET based open source e-commerce web suite. Features here http://dashcommerce.org/dashCommerce/featuresmatrix.aspx



• Umbraco - http://umbraco.org - ASP .NET based open source CMS system. Features here http://umbraco.org/tour



• Yet another forum - http://www.yetanotherforum.net/ - Microsoft ASP .NET open source forum software, for group based discussions.



• Screwturn wiki - http://www.screwturn.eu/Default.aspx - Open source, ASP .NET based wiki engine.

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