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  1. Ability to set environmental variables

    A way to easily set environmental variables. New wave of cloud apps/frameworks seem to leverage this as a way of injecting values into the app.

    4 votes
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  2. Dump() not generating navigation properties for large tables

    When querying a table with a large number of columns, navigation properties are not appended to the table.

    In particular, Table A I'm querying has 41 columns and does not produce the navigation properties.

    Table B with 29 columns does produce the navigation properties.

    We have a 1:Many (one table B for many table A). The link from TableB -> TableA does show, and it's not an issue with foreign keys, I suspect it's a hard limit we've crossed excluding the properties from generating

    24 votes
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  3. Trace tab with Logging Output Support

    Optionally support a separate trace tab as often have a lot of trace output and would like a way to hide the noise.

    Additionally, would be nice to support some basic formatted output with support for Info/Debug/Warn/Error and date/time... e.g. color changes and minor style differences.

    3 votes
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  4. Add a "Favorites" category for Database connections

    In my workplace there are 4 environments with 4 servers each, with 10 databases each. When I need to change environments i have a lot of servers to scroll to, even though I only ever use 8 of the databases in each of the 4 environments. It's be really nice if I could mark a server/database as a favorite, and have it be at the top of the list.

    8 votes
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  5. Dump object to separate panel

    I would like to be able to dump arbitrary objects to a new or secondary panel, the same way we can call DumpFormatted on XDocuments.
    Ex: new[] { 1, 2, 3 }.DumpToPanel("PanelName", <other dump options>);

    14 votes
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  6. To be able to search/filter in connection combo box

    with the shortcut Alt+C one is able to drop down the connection combo box. However, when you have several databases it gets too long to scroll using the arrow key. It would be really good if it is possible to do a fuzzy search and shorten the list of choices just as who the intellisense is working today.

    9 votes
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  7. Add buttons on query menu for Debugging optionss

    Add buttons on query menu for Debugging

    ie:

    Step into
    Step over etc

    configurable in preferences

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  8. Save tab state on exit

    Restore tabs in linqpad start

    6 votes
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  9. Show the JIT assembly code like Visual Studio's Disassembly window

    Sometimes rather than viewing IL I want to see the exact assembly code the JIT produces on my computer. LINQPad is a perfect place for such a playground.

    22 votes
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  10. Bug: Using Util.RawHtml("...").Dump from VB gives an error "Public member 'Dump' of type 'RawHtml' not found.

    Trying to use Util.RawHtml.Dump from VB does not work, it fails with a missing member exception "Public member 'Dump' of type 'RawHtml' not found."

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  11. Use Visual Studio Code as editor

    Hi,

    would be great if you could use Visual Studio Code as editor (IDE)

    91 votes
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  12. Allow pasting rows into Data Grid view in edit mode

    Sometimes when cleaning up, adding and editing data by hand, there can be an advantage in copying the cells from a query to excel.

    When you're done editing, it would be nice to be able to paste the data back in, in the edit mode.

    This is possible in Sql Server Management Studio

    18 votes
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  13. Add LINQPad to the Windows Store

    Microsoft has released their Desktop App Converter (see https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bridges/desktop) that allows Win32 apps to be published in the Windows Store. It would be great to be able to install and update LINQPad from the Windows Store.

    13 votes
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  14. json

    Have a results formatted for JSON or JSON strings that layouts out the results in a nice visual way.

    3 votes
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  15. BUG: LinqPad5 is unresponsive or has slow UI and intellisense for large queries

    I often use LinqPad as a text processor, where I have a method that returns a large set of data, for example:

    void Main()
    {
    GetWords().Dump();
    }

    // Define other methods and classes here
    private List<string> GetWords() {
    var list = new List<string>();
    list.Add("&c");
    list.Add("'d");
    list.Add("'em");

    // ... x 500 more lines

    return list;

    }

    In LinqPad4 this is fine. In LinqPad5, with the regular or "any CPU" install, this bogs down or becomes permanently unresponsive.

    Here is an example query, though I have experienced a slowdown in typing and intellisense with as few as 200 lines.

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/s3nfq1y3po90djy/High%20line%20count%202.linq?dl=0

    Again, works…

    12 votes
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  16. Make the 'Additional References' section allow for relative paths (rather than absolute).

    It sounds like there is already support in the .linq files for relative paths and allowing for paths to be specified relatively allows for transfer among users/machines with different setups

    2 votes
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  17. Query Tab undock

    Please tabs undock options. When use multiple monitor this future
    it can be useful.
    thanks a lot

    6 votes
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  18. Allow Tagging the queries for better Organization

    As a reference provider I would like to label/tag queries so that it is easy for others to locate queries using tag/labels.

    I am using folders to organize my saved queries by creating folder for language, type, version, library used etc. These queries are examples of how to use different libraries or language features. I organize these by creating folders for Libraries or Features used in the query.You can imagine that some queries include multiple libraries plus language features, in which case it becomes difficult to decide where to place it or end up in coping the query in many…

    6 votes
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  19. allow extensions that act on the linqpad editor itself

    It would be cool if you could write extensions or plugins for LinqPad which act specifically on your LinqPad selection or clipboard. Then configure shortcuts to call them.

    Some examples:

    Uppercase or Lowercase current selection.

    Take current clipboard input and format it before pasting it into the LinqPad text editor view.

    etc...

    9 votes
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  20. Remove "Active Queries" from task bar when you press Ctrl+TAB

    when you press Ctrl+TAB to swtich from one query to another, a new icon appears in the taskbar (active queries form). Is it possible to remove this or have an option to now show it?

    Every time I hit ctrl+tab my taskbar moves and I think something important is happening.

    4 votes
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