Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your LINQ file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert LINQ to another file type
To convert LINQ queries to another format, you need LINQPad or other Developer software.
Convert a file to LINQ
To convert other file formats to the "Code Script File" file type, you need software like LINQPad or a similar tool.
About LINQ files
The .linq file format is a specialized script generated by LINQPad, a popular scratchpad for .NET developers created by Joseph Albahari. These files contain raw code snippets - typically C#, F#, VB.NET, or SQL - alongside a custom XML-based header. This header stores critical metadata like database connection strings, NuGet package references, and imported namespaces required to run the code. The major disadvantage of a .linq file is its tight coupling with LINQPad. If you try to open it in a standard code editor like Visual Studio or VS Code, you are immediately confronted with a messy XML header before the actual code begins. This makes sharing the raw code directly with non-LINQPad users highly frustrating. Furthermore, the format is not natively executable outside the LINQPad environment without manual extraction. Developers often need to convert .linq files to standard .cs (C# Script), .sql (SQL Query), or plain .txt files to integrate the logic into a broader codebase or to share it cleanly. Standard online converters fail to process the custom XML headers embedded in these files, often corrupting the output. Our analysis can often extract the plain text code, bypass the proprietary metadata, and allow you to view or convert the embedded snippet into a more universal developer format.
Convert.Guru analyzes your LINQ file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert LINQ file to SQL, JS, TS, PY, JAVA, CPP, C, CS, PHP, RB, GO or RS, you can use LINQPad or similar software from the "Code Snippet Execution" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert SH, PY, KT, PS1, SWIFT, LUA, PL, JAVA, SCALA, JS, VBS or TS files to LINQ, try LINQPad or another comparable tool in the "Code Snippet Execution" category.
The LINQ Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our LINQ converter.