Missing support for .linq files about textmatebundleinstaller

[madskristensen]

I can't seem to find a Textmate bundle for .linq files. Do you happen to know if one exist?

[mguma]

Sorry, I can't find one too. I hoped, you were a little .tmLanguage genius, and you could hack one in minutes. :-)

Maybe you could use the same Textmate bundle as it is used for *.csx files and tweak the definition a little bit.

Linqpad-files have a small XML-Fragment at the beginning of the file:

<Query Kind="Program">
  <NuGetReference>WindowsAzure.Storage</NuGetReference>
  <Namespace>Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage</Namespace>
  <Namespace>Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Table</Namespace>
</Query>

private int myVar = 0;
void Main()
{
}

int SomeOtherFunction()
{
    return 2;
} 

...

The rest of the file is valid csharp code.

[JohnTasler]

It would be interesting to see if this could extend the normal C# editor to interpret the XML at the top to insert using statements for the elements and NuGet packages. Actually it might make more sense to create a .linq project type that would do that and allow editing of the C# using the normal C# editor.

Maybe I should take the learning curve for VS Extensions and do this as a learning experience. If I just had extra time to do so...