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  1. Please support vi emulator commands with inner/outer/tag modifiers

    Only d is supported currently. ci( ca( vi( va( etc. Also, cit vit etc? Thanks much!

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  2. A column with the same name as the table (eg. Volume.Volume) will not show in the data model

    I have a table called Volume. It has a bigint column called Volume as well. Linqpad doesn't show it at all

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  3. Implement rainbow braces as in Viasfora

    Using Viasfora in VS2019 and have to say it's a brilliant extension. Would be great if you could implement something similar in LINQPad.

    Thanks
    Dave

    https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TomasRestrepo.Viasfora

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  4. Make Connection Dropdown Searchable

    Many of our testing and production environments have well over 50 to 100 databases. Manually scrolling through the tree is tedious and scrolling through the Connection dropdown is not feasible. If the Connection dropdown was searchable, it would be far faster to hit alt+c, start typing, and hit enter to open that database.

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  5. Add DatePicker control to LINQPad.Controls

    There is no DatePicker control available and there doesn't appear to be a HTML5 implementation of <input type="date"> which would automatically show a DatePicker on clicking in the field. I expect it could be done with JavaScript, but a control would be nice.

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  6. Option for marked as "Production" database connections

    It would be nice to have an option for database connections marked as "Production" to be able or not be able to save changes, modify or delete etc.

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  7. Add quick filter box

    Add a quick filter box at the top of the My Queries and Samples list to easily filter by name - without having to go into "Go to...". Rename "Go to..." to "Advanced Filter"

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  8. Textbox input pane for c# / vb / f# program

    My suggestion is to add an optional expandable text input pane where any string could be written. This pane would be visible when choosing C# Program (or VB / F# Program) in the language drop down. The program template would then feature a Main(string arg) where the input would be fed.

    Many times I find myself pasting json, xml, csv, tsv data etc into the programming pane of linqpad. Afterwards I have to put the text into a string variable and replace quoute characters and other special chars to make it compile. Sometimes I instead write the text into a…

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  9. Fix Bug: Dump(), Console.WriteLine() adding line breaks in long string output

    When outputting a long string, LinqPad outputs line breaks not in the string after each block of 100,000 characters.

    This impacts string.Dump() (with no description), Console.Write(string), and Console.WriteLine(string).

    This is not just a visual issue with the output window. If you copy and paste from the output window into a text editor, the line breaks are present in the data.

    string.Dump("any text") does not exhibit the problem.

    Console.Write and Console.WriteLine when used in a C# console application (Visual Studio compiled) do not exhibit this behavior.

    LinqPad C# Program demonstrating the behavior:

    void Main()

    {
    "".Dump("Console.Write() has breaks at 100K chars…

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  10. Option to generate SQL without DECLARE so we can copy and paste SQL into tools like Tableau

    https://gist.github.com/nielsbosma/d5425ca23df3f3d6ff20273b7a5efd54

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  11. PowerQuery Language Support

    PowerQuery is becoming very popular and would be very useful feature to have support inside LINQPad .

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  12. Add option to rename connection when cloning an existing connection

    When creating a similar connection there is no option to change the name along with the other connection parameters. The new connection is created with the same name.

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  13. Please don't install a new update when I open LinqPad

    I regularly run LinqPad on clients' PC's in order to troubleshoot a database problem, rather than installing SQL Management. I don't like having an automatic update downloaded in the background onto their machine especially knowing that I will never use it anyway.

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  14. Add XML Documentation Helper

    Add a helper to the editor so that when /// is typed on the line before a property or method, the summary and param blocks are added similar to how it works in Visual Studio per this article:

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/reference/generate-xml-documentation-comments?view=vs-2017

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    Enable intellisense for /// < to template the common options:

    /// <summary
    /// <param
    /// <returns
    /// <see

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  15. Bug(?): IQ Driver generates invalid SQL when a column name is a keyword or reserved word

    I don't know if this is an issue with other connection types in the IQ driver, but using MariaDB, if I have a table with a column name like "Character", the generated SQL does not escape this column name, leading to a syntax error.

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  16. run query from context menu

    Very simple, right click on current query window and run query. Same as SSMS. If text is highlighted then run that context instead.

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  17. Copy columns

    When clicking on the header of a colomn the column gets selected and you can copy the entire column

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  18. Add a console like package manager

    A console on the bottom side like the package manager on VS. Having the ability to run powershell, cmd or your own linqpad scripts. By default on the query directory. This way, you can chain commands with your own scripts and things like that to automate things.

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  19. Allow changing font on IL tab

    It is possible to overwrite styles for HTML results on Preferences/Results/Style sheet. Unfortunately those overrides aren't used when IL tab is rendered. Please fix it. Thanks.

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  20. Add ability to highlight text/row in output window which matches some text passed to Dump() method

    The Dump() method should expose a parameter that adds ability to highlight texts that matches the parameter. This would help us quickly find something when dealing with a deeply nested or a very long list of objects that are dumped.

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