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Progressive Dump

While a linq query is going on, I would like to dump the values, but part of the same Dump... if that makes sense. I use LINQPad to handle small menial tasks I don't feel like starting a new VS project for.

So while I am in a long linq query, I would like another method for DumpToExisting([id]) and Dump() should return a GUID or Integer id.

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  • Alexander Krivács Schrøder commented  ·   ·  Report

    Or, to relate it to another feature already present in LINQPad, something like the Util.Progressbar (which can be updated as the query runs), but much more generic.

  • Alexander Krivács Schrøder commented  ·   ·  Report

    I really wanted this feature today as well. I have a WCF service that I'm connecting to and receiving data from, and instead of having to dump every received message (which are of different types) in a random order, it'd be nice to be able to gather them into their own section.

    My idea:

    var type1s = Util.CreateDumpSection().Dump("Type 1");
    var type2s = Util.CreateDumpSection().Dump("Type 2");
    var type3s = Util.CreateDumpSection().Dump("Type 3");

    which would make three "live" sections into which you could dump data, e.g.:

    type1s.Add(someObject);

    This would have the same effect as someObject.Dump(), but would be appended to the type1s section instead of the bottom of the result pane.

  • Anders Lyman commented  ·   ·  Report

    I would like this too - rather than:
    foo.Dump();
    // Add item to foo collection
    foo.Dump();
    // Add item to foo collection
    foo.Dump();

    Which would dump three objects to the console, you could do:

    var dumpId = foo.Dump();
    // Add item to foo collection
    foo.DumpToExisting(dumpId);
    // Add item to foo collection
    foo.DumpToExisting(dumpId);

    And that would simply replace the existing dump.