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C# Querying With LINQ Now You're Querying Writing Your First LINQ Query

Posted by Siavash Gheifardi
Siavash Gheifardi
12,510 Points

Why not do this in Visual Studio?

The querying with LINQ course would be so much easier to understand in Visual Studio. It makes it confusing and we would never use workspace command outside of Visual Studio. Why force it in some courses and not in others?

6 Answers

Mircea Dan Dumitru
Mircea Dan Dumitru
6,737 Points
Mircea Dan Dumitru
Mircea Dan Dumitru
6,737 Points

I'd prefer this to be taught in visual studio also.

James Churchill
STAFF
James Churchill
Treehouse Teacher
James Churchill
James Churchill
Treehouse Teacher

Siavash,

Thanks so much for being a student and for taking the time to provide your feedback!

The idea behind using Workspaces for our C# language courses is to keep the barrier to entry as low as possible. Also, by not requiring Visual Studio, students don't need to have a Windows PC or mentally map what they're seeing to another tool like Xamarin Studio (or the recently released Visual Studio for Mac).

That being said, you make an excellent point about the difficulties that are introduced by not having access to Visual Studio's tooling... like IntelliSense. We're always looking for opportunities to improve our courses and workshops, so we'll keep this feedback in mind for future updates to our C# curriculum.

Thanks ~James

kevin hudson
kevin hudson
Courses Plus Student 11,987 Points

James or any staff or Moderator, It's now been more than two years (2017 - 2019) where is the updated course? using csharp is annoying and discouraging.

William Keely
William Keely
7,295 Points
William Keely
William Keely
7,295 Points

This course would be so much better with Visual Studio. This Workspace editor frustrates me so much. Its the same with the Java course. Something like Eclipse should be used.

Kiron Roy
Kiron Roy
3,210 Points
Kiron Roy
Kiron Roy
3,210 Points

For this course you can use Repl IT I have been using both Repl IT and Visual Studio Community Edition 2017

Here is an example of Repl IT with LINQ

mikkel pohjola
mikkel pohjola
1,966 Points
mikkel pohjola
mikkel pohjola
1,966 Points

i agree with Mircea Dan Dumitru because everytime i try to make this {} in workspaces nothing happens. I am from denmark i we use another keybord then u do but that should not be a problem. in visual studio that would work so much better for me and then i am in the environment i allready now :D it is a litle confusing to use the console when it is not used in visual studio :D

Rob B
Rob B
2,915 Points
Rob B
Rob B
2,915 Points

Can you use LINQPad to does tutorials? As I dont like Workspaces.