Use C# interactive in Visual Studio to experiment with your code on the fly
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I needed to quickly test a regular expression, and the new feature of Visual Studio 2015 came to the rescue: C# Interactive
You will find this under View → Other Windows → C# Interactive
In my case I wanted to test how the Regex.IsMatch() method handled strings that were null or empty. Note that I had to import .NET's RegularExpressions library.
> string href = null;
> using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
> Regex.IsMatch(href, @"^http://")
System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null
> href = "";
> Regex.IsMatch(href, @"^http://")
false
> href = "http://www.test.com";
> Regex.IsMatch(href, @"^http://")
true