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

sdflysha · March 2019

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 · March 2019

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 · September 2019

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

JoeAlbahari · September 2019

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
{
  //...
}

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

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