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Source Generator support would be a great addition to LinqPad. SG seems to be getting a lot more popular, especially as we move to AOT compilation in dotnet 8. Most things we used to do with reflection are now source generated.

Here's one example of a great library which relies on it. https://github.com/SteveDunn/Vogen

There is a .csx editor: RoslynPad, seems pretty powerful, and which is open source, cross-platform and .NET Core supported, compile-to-dll supported:
https://github.com/aelij/RoslynPad

The ".csx" file format also supports reference to library/nuget, support reference to another .csx file, this is what LINQPad not supported. (And yes .csx file does not support LINQPad-like database driver and powerful Util.Xyz/.Dump function:) )

Does LINQPad has any interest or plan to take a look (or support) the ".csx" file format like RoslynPad?

A WebView2 upgrade for the MSAL libraries has been in the pipeline for a while and has been completed for LINQPad 8. A beta should be out within a few weeks - hopefully this should resolve your issue.

I'll review this after LINQPad 8 is released next month. It will mean bringing the .NET Framework version of System.Text.Json + its dependencies into LINQPad 5, which will bump other dependencies, requiring extensive regression testing.

It would be nice if LinqPad Intellisense would recognize the StringSyntaxAttribute for parameters and display Intellisense according to the supplied attribute for example like Visual Studio does:

Thanks @JoeAlbahari, 7.8.6 worked exactly as I expected, my EF Core context was recognized and I could start querying against it.

Thanks!

Will add exception tag support in LINQPad 8. Remarks tags can get pretty long so I don't know how well this will work with tooltips unless truncated. Note that there are no remarks tags in the .NET runtime XML files - these have all been stripped out.

@JohnGoldsmith thanks: will fix this in the next LINQPad 5 build.

Hello everybody,

Plotly.Net supports LINQPad .Dump(). This brings the plotting power and interactive charts of Plotly directly to LINQPad. Just ensure that you reference Plotly.Net 4.2.0 or above.

Here is a C# example and a F# example.

Please note that from C#, you must explicitly reference Plotly.Net in addition to Plotly.NET.csharp for now, otherwise you may end up using 4.1, which does not support .Dump().

Is anyone still using these runtimes? I'd like to drop support for these in LINQPad 8.