Using
The tool instantly became a daily companion. I don't understand how I ever lived without it.
Trying
LINQPad is a lightweight IDE for the .NET platform. It lets you test LINQ queries and snippets of C#, F#, and SQL without spinning up a full-blown Visual Studio project. You can test the DbContexts from your own projects by simply plugging in the DLLs, and write scripts too.
On top of all that, it's a great tool for prototyping code, poking at .NET internals, and comfortable benchmarking.