How to implement Dump as the one provided by LinqPad? [duplicate]

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Given (new [] {"a", "b"}).Dump(), LinqPad provides some very useful print results.

It seems that this extension method is a short hand for Console.WriteLine.

Question> how to implement this dump for myself?

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This thread might be of use to you. Is there a library that provides a formatted Dump( ) function like LinqPad?

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With a lot of hard work.

Dump is not a shortcut for Console.WriteLine; it's an extremely complicated recursive method which turns arbitrary object graphs into HTML, with special support for collections, DataTables, Images, and a couple of other types.

It also has special output code to format collections of complex objects into tables, and to prevent recursive expansion.

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You can grab the Object Dumper class that is included in the Visual C# 2008 Samples. It won't be in the pretty HTML format used by LINQPad and the other types of output it supports, but the purpose is similar.