It's no secret that a big fan of LINQPad. Though I originally started out using it for data manipulation and visualisation in a previous life, over time my LINQPad queries have become more and more sophisticated, with high levels of interactivity and…

I use LINQPad a lot. Whether as a scratchpad or for fast, capable and interactive exploration of data, it's hard to beat. A LINQPad query is executed within a single 'data context' - typically a connection to a database, but there are many other crea…