LinqPad4 does not show results

Question

I am playing around with LinqPad4. This is my SQL Statement that returns 2 records, my equivalent Linq statement executed successfully, however it does not show any results.

select top 2 * from Nums


var testing = (from nums in Nums select new {nums.N}).Take(50);

Why??

Thanks & Regards,

Answer 1

You assigned the result of the query to the variable testing. If you want to see the contents in the results pane, you can dump it like this.

testing.Dump();

You could also switch the language to C# expression, and ditch the variable declaration entirely.

Answer 2

Dump() outputs your result to the output window.

So it is either:

var testing = (from nums in Nums select new {nums.N}).Take(50).Dump();
// or
testing.Dump();

Joe Albahari (the author of LinqPad) has also written an article about both output methods Dump() and Dissamble() here: LINQPad [extension] methods.