Feature Request: Native Markdown Rendering Support for .Dump() Method
Add native rich Markdown rendering support to the LINQPad .Dump() method, which can parse Markdown-formatted text and render it with beautiful, styled display effects (similar to rendered HTML/rich text), instead of displaying raw plain-text Markdown syntax.
In 2026, AI chatbots (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Kimi etc.) are now the primary companion tool for .NET developers using LINQPad. A near-universal standard is that all AI responses are returned in Markdown format.
When we got these AI-generated Markdown responses (code blocks, formatted explanations, lists, bold/italic text, headings, links) from LINQPad we want to use the .Dump() method to display them — LINQPad only shows the raw Markdown source text with all the syntax symbols (#, **, *, ```, -, >).
This creates a very poor reading experience:
Hope to have a some cool dump effects for markdown texts.
This is now implemented in 9.6.3.
Util.Markdown("**Bold**).Dump();
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Quintos commented
Cool! Thanks
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sgmoore
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Not sure if you are aware of a workaround - See https://forum.linqpad.net/discussion/3194/helpful-hint-rendering-markdown-in-linqpad-dumps