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Interactive .NET Notebooks in Visual Studio Code

Deborah Melkin tries out .NET Interactive Notebooks in Visual Studio Code:

These days, we tend to think Azure Data Studio when we database developers talk about notebooks, specifically SQL Notebooks. But what Rob used for his demos are a new functionality within VS Code called .NET Interactive Notebooks. It was developed in combination with the Azure Data Studio team and it has support for SQL. But the cool thing that intrigued me was that a notebook could support multiple kernels, unlike Azure Data Studio. Knowing how much we love our SQL and PowerShell and this being a feature that many of us want to see in SQL Notebooks, I decided to try and set this up and poke around.

Click through for Deb’s experiences. And I’ll also point out that .NET Interactive Notebooks supports the best .NET language (and the one which most naturally fits the ethos of notebooks), F#.