About the Author

I’m an IT businesses entrepreneur, a software developer, and a huge technology fan. My company went to market in 1990, focused mostly on custom software development. We started with COBOL as our main programming language, and since then we’ve evolved up to .NET and Microsoft Office technologies. Through these years, some of my core activities have included research about cutting-edge technologies and searching for new tools that can help us automate some or all processes regarding our products’ development lifecycle.

In 2010, electronic invoicing was set as a requirement for business transactions in Mexico, which forced us to upgrade all of our business-related products within a six-month window. In those days, the effort of our development team was huge. Fortunately, we delivered all of our products right on time.

We didn’t expect any further changes regarding electronic invoicing, but we were wrong. Two years later, in 2012, the Mexican Tax Authority implemented a lot of modifications regarding invoicing. The deadline for these changes gave us only four months to upgrade all of our products.

Since then, new requirements about electronic invoicing have been published by the Mexican Tax Authority every year. This has made it almost impossible for us to comply with them on time without a huge effort from our company.

LINQPad went into action in 2015 as a solution for testing our .NET reusable libraries related to electronic invoicing. As a result, testing for those libraries was done in a fraction of the time compared with our previous efforts. The delivery of our products can now be made with less time and effort.

As a great lover of technology, I’ve been exploring the product since the first day we started using it, and it has pleased me immensely. Because it supports LINQ, our company has an easy way to learn how to implement it in our .NET applications without the need to build any kind of project for doing so. Also, testing became instantaneous. This helped us improve our Scrum practices, allowing us to include more features for a product in a single sprint. This increases maturity level for each of our products in less time.

For these reasons, LINQPad will definitely remain a part of our toolbox for many years.