Consider add a new language "C# Program with Namespace"?

sdflysha

Somethings we create a ASP.NET Core MVC demo using LINQPad, but the controller need to be in namespace(instead of in class), this way, code would be a little messy here:

void Main()
{
	WebHost
		.CreateDefaultBuilder()
		.UseStartup<Startup>()
		.UseUrls("https://localhost:55555")
		.Build()
		.Start();
}

class Startup
{
	public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
	{
		services.AddMvc();
	}

	public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app)
	{
		app.UseMvcWithDefaultRoute();
	}
}
}
namespace Controllers
{
	public class HomeController : Controller
	{
		public string Index()
		{
			return "Hello World";
		}
	}
}

class EOF {

Is that possible to add a "C# Program with Namespace" way, to make the code much simpler(maybe like this):

namespace App
{
	class EntryPoint : UserQuery
	{
		static void Main()
		{
			WebHost
				.CreateDefaultBuilder()
				.UseStartup<Startup>()
				.UseUrls("https://localhost:55555")
				.Build()
				.Start();
		}
	}

	public class HomeController : Controller
	{
		public string Index()
		{
			return "Hello World";
		}
	}

	class Startup
	{
		public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
		{
			services.AddMvc();
		}

		public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app)
		{
			app.UseMvcWithDefaultRoute();
		}
	}
}

JoeAlbahari

I will look into this, but it's quite a lot of work. And it would make working with data contexts messy and complicated.

sdflysha

JoeAlbahari So do we have any progress of this? Or do you think it's not worthy enough to implement?

JoeAlbahari

This is supported in the latest LINQPad 6 beta (although there's a bug, which will be fixed in the next few days).

Note that there's no new language option. The 'C# Program' mode now lets you include namespaces as well as types.

You can also (optionally) keep the main method outside of the namespace declarations, if you need to access a data context:

void Main()
{
  // ...
}

namespace Foo
{
  //...
}