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  1. The recent file list under the File menu seems to max out at 9. I would like the config option to increase this number (e.g. 20) similar to what can be done for the recent files list in Visual Studio under Options|Environment|General|items to show in recently used lists.

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  2. Often I want to search through all column names on all tables. For example, I'll know there is a 'description' column in my database, but I don't know what table it is on. I'd like to be able to start typing "desc" and have it show any columns containing the text "desc", and the table that column is on, and it's type. Much like ReSharper's Goto Symbol function.

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  3. You have support for web services. Expand this to support "browsing" sites/services that support HAL or HATEOAS

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  4. I use LINQPad for computation. From time to time I need to change a few parameters and re-run the query. Now I have to export results to files then do the comparison.

    It'd be nice to give an option to APPEND results instead of CLEAR OLD + NEW. (I can write a line to the output to separate the results from run to run.)

    Many thanks.

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  5. We make use of optional parameters in the constructor of our typed datacontext. However, LINQPad cannot consume this datacontext. I get an error: "The type must define a public parameterless constructor." I propose that if there is a constructor with optional parameters and default values, that constructor should be used with the defaults.

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  6. I'd like to fetch 10 items rather than 100 as 100 items make me to scroll to top always.

    It would be good to adjust default fetch count in Preference.

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  7. now when a compiler occured, you got nothing in the screen.
    no results, no syntax tree, only error info.
    there are three kind of compiler error, lexer error, grammar error, semantic error.
    if the error is semantic error, the syntax tree must have been generated, so i wish it could be shown in the screen.

    or in a nutshell, show me the syntax tree when it is possible.

    i want this feature for debugging compiler. XD

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  8. Hi, can you please add a function that clears the current SQL dump pane? This would be helpful while stepping thru code with the debugger when I want to keep track with the latest SQL statement showing up in that pane. Maybe a button next to "Analyze SQL v".

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  9. When storing .LINQ files in source control, running them on multiple machines end up checking in minor changes very often, due to the absolute path of relative references also being stored, like this:

    <Reference Relative="..\..\MDA.Cards\bin\Debug\MDA.Cards.dll">D:\dev\VS.NET\MtGDeckAnalyzer\MDA.Cards\bin\Debug\MDA.Cards.dll</Reference>

    I suggest you don't store the absolute path when you also got the Relative attribute, so that the programs only change when you actually make a change, and not change because you happen to run them on a computer with a different path setup.

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  10. 1) Ignore - ignore field/property/class in the dumped tree
    Example:
    public class AggregatedError
    {
    public string Name { get; private set; }

          [DumpOptions(Options.Ignore)]
          public string[] Files { get; private set; }
    

    }
    will not display Files property.

    2) NotExpanded - do not expand collection by default
    Example:
    public class AggregatedError
    {
    public string Name { get; private set; }

          [DumpOptions(Options.NotExpanded)]
          public string[] Files { get; private set; }
    

    }
    will display Files as a collection, but will not expand its by default

    3) ToString - display object as string
    Example:
    [DumpOptions(Options.ToString)]
    public class AggregatedError
    {
    public override string ToString()
    {…

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  11. Add a windows explorer menu short cut that would :
    When right clicking assembly files (*.dll) which are .net dlls
    startup linqpad with an empty snippet that has the dll as reference.
    Ultimately linqpad would reflect the public members of the dll and list them somwher in the left pane.

    For trying out dlls this would be a killer feature!

    You could also implement "spying" on configuration manager so that any calls to ConfigurationManager.AppSettings would alert the user and let him enter a value that the snippet would use.

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  12. Have the possibility to create a SQL view from the result of a dump() !
    Linq is create to quickly extract complex data. If after you have just to click a button to save this in database it will very useful.

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  13. 3 votes
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  14. It'd be so cool if we could output/publish Dump() traces to slack somehow.

    Sharing quick reports with my team would be amazingly simple.

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  15. Right now we have some linqpad scripts that use 1.7.1 of NEST Elasticsearch and some using 2.4.5. But we can not share those/use them on the same machine since there is only one 'NEST' directory under Linqpad\Nuget, right?

    Not sure how this would be handled since you want to upgrade etc, but maybe the diretory should contain the version number in it? Then you could in theory have 2 versions downloaded.

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  16. I usualy work by batches... at one client I use thoses queries, while at this other one, I use a different set...

    And I have like 10-20 queries open, in a specific work context...

    Context switching is a bit of a nightmare....

    If only I had a button to save not the files themselves, but the specific work context, I could just reopen a previous context and off I'm gone...

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  17. It would be great if Linqpad supported using oAuth for authentication.

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  18. It would be awesome to be able to define along with every database connection some description, and custom color, which will then be shown in some corner in query designer.

    It is usefull to warn you when you are accessing development, test or production database (or any other depending on the message you provided with connection string).

    That way you can easily see, green means I'm good, red means extra carefull. Much safer than to accidentaly query the wrong database and alter the production data by accident.

    25 votes
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  19. The very left column (for selecting rows) should be a rownumberer column. Showing the index number of that row. Handy if you are sorting by a particular column and then want to quickly see how many are in each group.

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  20. I want to create a JSON file for use as part of a simple web prototyping exercise. LinqPAD is perfect for accessing the data from my DB in just the shape I need, however I cannot get it out as JSON very easily.

    I don't really care what the schema is, because I can adapt my JavaScript to work with whatever is returned.

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