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  1. When calling Dump() on a typle with named elements, the output columns are "Item1", "Item2", etc. instead of the actual names.

    Example:

    var names = new List<(int Id, string First, string Last)>();

    ...

    Actual output:

    Item1 Item2 Item3
    1 Alice Cooper
    2 Bob Hope

    Expected / desired output:

    Id First Last
    1 Alice Cooper
    2 Bob Hope

    36 votes
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  2. In Sublime Text and Visual Studio Code you can select multiple other occurrences of the current selection with CTRL-D (see the first animation in the main slideshow on https://www.sublimetext.com/).

    I'm so used to this being available that it now almost feels like a chore to have to do a 'normal' find/replace when I'm editing in LINQPad (I know: First World problem...).

    Anyway, it would be amazing if LINQPad gained this capability, as it really speeds things up when hacking about with code.

    21 votes
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  3. I would like the option to sort the connections by name, now I have similar named connections all over the place (which already lead to duplication). This sorting would be convinient in combination with the grouping of connections into folders (first order folders, then folder contents)

    18 votes
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  4. Airtable and Linqpad is my two favorite tools. Please arrange a marriage so I can use Airtable in Linqpad as easy as it's connect to other datasources.

    5 votes
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  5. Would be useful when experimenting with F# Hopac.

    4 votes
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  6. Detect the Dump() statements and render an inline Button next to it (or in the left column). That button work immediately execute only that Dump() statement.

    Probably only works in the C# statement(s) mode

    3 votes
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  7. Any of the following key combinations will exit insert mode: Escape, Shift+Enter, Ctrl+Enter. Typing 'kj' quickly will also exit insert mode if you enable that option in Preferences.

    Ctrl+[ is a common alternative to escape in vim. A lot of vim users do not use the Esc key directly as it means taking your hand of the home row. Specially if you have Caps lock mapped to Ctrl. It would be nice to have it as an option.

    9 votes
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  8. Code folding works already for properties and methods but not for comments which use the three slash prefix such as:
    /// <summary>
    /// Gets or sets the name
    /// </summary>
    public string Name { get; set; }

    8 votes
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  9. R/Python/F# all have REPL environments that allow creation of live scripted Jupyter notebooks.

    LinqPad has the ability to become this for the .Net world.

    Some features that would allow this:

    Xamarin has a concept of workbooks already

    https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/workbooks/install/

    TensorFlow demo example for this notebook here

    https://github.com/larcai/cognibooks/tree/master/tensorflow

    Leverage LinqPads scripting environment to be the .Net Data Science Notebook of the future!

    54 votes
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  10. When constructing a ValueTuple, such as

    var vt = (ItemOne: "This is item 1.", ItemTwo: "This is item 2.");

    and then using the Dump extension method, the dumped output does not reflect the semantic property meanings implied when constructing the ValueTuple.

    It would be nice if instead of Item1 , Item2, etc if you dumped out the actual semantic property names used at instantiation.

    Thank you

    I am using v5.26.01 of LINQPad and v4.4.0 of System.ValueTuple via NuGet / Microsoft.

    1 vote
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  11. Add an option to make whitespace visible like in Visual Studio.

    46 votes
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  12. Apparently LINQPad is unable to correctly resolve the extension method if it is available either in the same or sub-namespace.

    E.g. .net-4.7.1 has recently added the Append extension. I had an extension with the same signature in my own library.

    Even though my extension uses the namespace System.Linq.Custom it does not work in LINQPad. There are no problems with it in Visual Studio and there the compiler picks my extension.

    This looks like a bug to me.

    The exact error message is:

    CS0121 The call is ambiguous between the following methods or properties: 'System.Linq.Enumerable.Append<TSource>(System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<TSource>, TSource)' and 'System.Linq.Custom.EnumerableExtensions.Append<T>(System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<T>, T)'

    7 votes
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  13. Our Dev and QA servers have at least a hundred databases on each server instance. It would be great if there was a "Quick Select" for databases similar to the "Navigate to Query" ctrl+, window. I know there is the drop down at the top, but it is not a searchable drop down.

    3 votes
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  14. Please add an option for logging in to MS SQL Server with other user credentials than currently logged in windows user ("Windows authentication")

    9 votes
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  15. Add JavaScript language so that we can easily test logic and functionalities without opening a browser.

    5 votes
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  16. Reopen all tabs (saved and unsaved like Sublime Text and so on)

    4 votes
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  17. I'd like to put some script to public git repo, but I don't want to share connection data which is stored in *.linq files. Please add option to skip saving this. I fully accept a must to choose DB after each script opening.

    3 votes
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  18. You already allow the main method to be async (returning a Task). So implementing a soft-cancel button which only becomes visible when the main method signature contains a CancellationToken argument shouln'd be very complicated.

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  19. At the moment, items such as the editor do not read with a screen reader (at least the screen reader I use, NVDA, which is available at http://www.nvda-project.org). It would be nice if, when a screen reader is detected, it is changed to something like a rich text box or normal multiline text box with the advanced editing features of the editor that it has now.

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  20. Util.Dif is awesome :)
    It would be nice to do something like
    var dif = Util.Dif(o1, o2);
    if (dif.IsDifferent)
    {
    dif.Result.Dump();
    }

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