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  1. Start LINQPad, click Add connection

    Actual result:
    - useful drivers (LPX files) are listed.

    Exepected result:
    - include more drivers, eg
    https://github.com/dylanmei/linqpad-soap-driver

    Ideally, this would be more of a nuget style listing.

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  2. Ability to have a multiple WCF calls and/or multiple DB connections in same opened query.

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  3. I love this and would love for it to be accessible on my Android device.

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  4. When running a query against an EntityFramework Typed DataContext connection, and the assembly folder path has a comma in it, linqpad shows System.IO.FileLoadException "The given assembly name or codebase was invalid". The context connection and tables show correctly on the left, but queries fail to execute.

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  5. I would like a protection layer for production databases.
    It could be two factor push or simple password/pin.

    But something that allows me to have production databases without being afraid that i make a devestating mistake when not properly focused. Or that someone with bad intentions can wreck havoc.

    A simple password prompt on first access is enough and then a timeout after being inactive for a number of minutes.

    18 votes
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  6. At the moment it's possible to change the query lang via lprun using the -lang flag. It'd be awesome to be able to do the same when using Util.Run and Util.Compile/CompileAsync from other assemblies.

    It'd also be super useful to be able to pass a Stream to the same methods, but that's secondary :).

    3 votes
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  7. Support INotifyPropertyChanged in the same way as IObservable, i.e. update the value when the property changes

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  8. It is helpful for me to see at a glance if the process I am using is elevated or not - as by default they are not. Here is some sample code I tested in LINQPad to test it under my Win7 environment:

    // using System.Security.Principal
    WindowsIdentity user = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent();
    WindowsPrincipal principal = new WindowsPrincipal(user);
    principal.IsInRole(WindowsBuiltInRole.Administrator).Dump();

    Discussion point: I don't know if any automation tools look for a title bar named LINQPad 4 - but changing it could introduce a breaking change for those folks. I imagine that changed from older versions (though I can't remember honestly). Maybe have it…

    18 votes
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  9. Many files will loaded from the folder containing the executable, resultstyles.css is not one of them.

    6 votes
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  10. In SharpDevelop there is a useful tool which allows you to load a VB class and then convert it into C# (via Tools -> Convert Code to ...).

    It currently supports source code conversions between VB.NET and C# (and vice versa).

    Since SharpDevelop is Open Source, maybe it is not too difficult to add this feature to SharpDevelop?

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  11. I really love the "Roslyn Syntax Tree" visualizer, and use it a lot to inspect how the code looks like a tree.

    However, I also do a lot with Roslyn, analyzing code, and writing code fixers. I'd really love it when I have a SyntaxNode, to be able to dump that to the Tree visualizer, and see it's tree there.

    9 votes
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  12. The following code dumps the initial state of the IObservable<Int64>, but does not refresh it as new elements are added:

    var i = Observable.Interval(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1));
    var w = i.Window(10);
    w.DumpLatest();

    As a workaround, adding the following line of code seems to fix the problem:

    w.Subscribe(wi => wi.DumpLatest());

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  13. A really nice feature would be an integration of LinqPad into Excel, a bit like Tsunami. I presume that it shouldn't be too difficult to implement with ExcelDna.

    What would be really nice is features like being able to run Linq query against excel ranges, and if possible (like in F#) having auto-complete with column names.

    LinqPad to excel (making functions available as udf in excel) is also nice but I think less useful.

    29 votes
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  14. The help menu item doesn't appear to give any help on how to use the program's find and replace tool. What are the wild-cards and regular expression features that the tool supports. Does it support beginning-line and ending anchors, multiline search patterns, etc.

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  15. 20 votes
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  16. every time after CTRL-E,D formatting, moving current line to the top of the screen flickers the screen. I think it would be good to simply leave the screen as it is

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  17. When I connect to a server which has a lot of databases (Azure in my case), it would be nice if the list of databases could be sorted alphanumerically in the connection window.

    It's possible this option exists, but I have yet to find it!

    9 votes
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  19. I see reports from several years ago of memory leaks. I find I have to close LinqPad regularly because it consumes a lot of memory - I just killed a collection of LP processes, one of which was consuming over 2GB and another over 1.5GB and the total in use by LinqPad processes was over 8GB. It seemed to be holding onto processes for tabs I'd closed because there were only 4 tabs in which I'd executed queries, but there were 10 processes other than the main app process.

    When I restart LP (which I kill in Task Manager because…

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  20. When I try to render some HTML that I get back from an FtpWebRequest call, dumping it to Util.RawHtml() gets me back a serif font output... the HTML actually has <pre> tagged content which should be monospaced, if I'm correct about how that gets rendered. When I run the same request via IE, I get exactly what I want.

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