LINQPad isn’t just for development any more… (Chris Sells and how he uses it as a budgeting, as in money, tool)

sellsbrothers - Using LINQPad to Run My Life: Budgeting

“I use LINQPad all the time for a bunch of stuff, but most recently and most relevant, I’ve been using it for a personal chore that isn’t developer-related: I’ve been using it to do budgeting.

What is LINQPad?

LINQPad is an interactive execution environment for LINQ queries, statements or programs. The typical usage model is that you point LINQPad at a SQL database or an OData endpoint via a dialog box and then start writing queries against the tables/collections exposed by that connection, e.g.

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You’ve GOT to love developers. We’ll so some the weird stuff because, well… we can! I mean what in life can’t be fixed with a little code? :P

Seeing Chris do his budgeting in LINQPad, one of the must have .Net development utilities, really tickled my fancy (okay, it made me snort-laugh… ;) and I just had to share it…

 

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