Given (new [] {"a", "b"}).Dump(), LinqPad provides some very useful print results.
It seems that this extension method is a short hand for Console.WriteLine.
Question> how to implement this dump for myself?
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Andrei Sfat
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This thread might be of use to you. Is there a library that provides a formatted Dump( ) function like LinqPad?
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I have tried to add LinqPad.exe to my refernece, but I got the following warning. Warning 1 The referenced assembly "LINQPad" could not be resolved because it has a dependency on "System.Web, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" which is not in the currently targeted framework ".NETFramework,Version=v4.0,Profile=Client". Please remove references to assemblies not in the targeted framework or consider retargeting your project. ConsoleApplication2 – q0987 Jun 07 '11 at 15:31
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you need to target the full v4 framework - not the cut-down client profile. Check your project properties. – kjn Jun 17 '11 at 08:10
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Or download the .NET 3.5 version of LinqPad – TheRealTy Jun 23 '11 at 00:07
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With a lot of hard work.
Dump is not a shortcut for Console.WriteLine; it's an extremely complicated recursive method which turns arbitrary object graphs into HTML, with special support for collections, DataTables, Images, and a couple of other types.
It also has special output code to format collections of complex objects into tables, and to prevent recursive expansion.
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basically, you tell me to just use it inside Linqpad rather than do it myself:) – q0987 Jun 01 '11 at 20:53
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I'm not telling you anything. It depends what you're trying to accomplish. – SLaks Jun 01 '11 at 20:55
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You can grab the Object Dumper class that is included in the Visual C# 2008 Samples. It won't be in the pretty HTML format used by LINQPad and the other types of output it supports, but the purpose is similar.
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