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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  6. PowerQuery is becoming very popular and would be very useful feature to have support inside LINQPad .

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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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

    OR

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

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

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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. When clicking on the header of a colomn the column gets selected and you can copy the entire column

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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. Coping and Pasting the Result data to another application normally don't show results has expected.

    Like pasting to notepad the columns heads is pasted one per line and the data is pasts was separated by space.

    I would expected that the past data and the headers should be pasted separated by tab.

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  17. title says it all. I really really need this, as LINQPad becomes really really annoying to navigate after a while without this

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  18. Yes, we can add a new folder via save dialog but it will save time

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  19. I use LinqPad to share data through email all the time. Currently the best way to do this is to export to HTML file, load the file, copy to clipboard, paste to Outlook as email.

    Could you add a "Export to clipboard as HTML" option to Export drop down menu that would just put the data you are saving to a file on the clipboard?

    Or add an "Export to clipboard as HTML" to the ▶ menu on each Dump (same drop down as View in Grid, Toggle all graph columns)

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  20. How about adding a Regular Expression evaluator. Something similar to the abandonware one created by Rad Systems

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