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  1. I mean no offense, but the new icon (LinqPad 5.0) looks like a polygon made in 2 minutes using CorelDraw. The old one (4.x) is much better, more polished and represented perfectly the program and its purpose.

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  2. I'd like to be able to have linqpad running on my app and sql servers and be able to securely execute my linqpad script on a remote machine, e.g. on sql server 1, or my hosting server (x), I'd run linqpad as a service, on my dev machine, I'd I want to be able to write a query and test it on my dev, box, then when I'm happy with it, I want to run it securely agains the remote box, and this is the critical part, so that the queries all run (locally) on the remote box without the…

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  3. When you create a new entity using an OData v3 connection and then call this.SaveChanges(), it saves the entity and its state is set to Unchanged. Then, calling this.GetOperationDescriptor(myEntity).OperationDescriptors returns 0 elements, but calling the same code using a Service Reference in VS2013 does return all the operation descriptors. It would be nice if LINQPad couild have the same behaviors because, looking at the response in Fiddler, the links are returned in the response but they are just ignored.

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  4. Currently when you have a dataset and you export it to excel, it works great except for field types. Excel likes to assume what data type is in each cell, and in cases where there are string values with padded zeros (e.g. 0012345) excel thinks it's a number and drops the padding.

    Is there any way you can apply column formatting (even the most primitive like Double=>Number, String=>Text, Decimal=>Money, etc.)? This would preserve data during the transition to excel making the export a true 1:1.

    14 votes
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  5. Just a minor suggestion. I'll like to be able to sort files in the "My Queries" tab - by date modified, by date created, by name etc. I experience a little frustration having to remember the name of the last file I worked on.

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  6. Paste as a comment block

    Just like the paste as escaped string is great, i think paste as comment block would be just as useful.

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  7. Allow for LINQPad Query to be exported as a Visual Studio 2015 XML Snippet file.

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  8. Simpley allow the usr to rename the grids, or perhaps to provide a comment in the sql to name the results grid for each query when doing multiple queries.

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  9. 4 votes
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  10. We use lprun with teamcitry to generate various statistics and post them to our wiki every week. However today it is not possible to execute these scripts with lprun, without first manually enter the credentials on the particular machine first.

    Lprun should be able to execute remotely, without having to manually configure it on every machine. A really simple way, would be to let users disable encryption of the password. Another possibility, is to let users specify a certificate to use for encryption.

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  11. It would be handy to have some sort of date picker and/or perhaps auto-insert of the current datetime in the data grid.

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  12. Ability to right click on the results area to do a screen capture (image) of the result(s) to be taken and sent to a predefined image hosting site.

    Then provide access the image URL in the clipboard in either raw html or in StackOverflow format.

    [Title Here](http://{Image Hosting Addy to image})

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  13. I often find myself using LINQPad to look at the latest data inserted into database tables. I keep a lot of tabs open with something like
    myTable.OrderByDescending(t => t.TableId).Take(10)

    I also spend a lot of time flipping through a bunch of tables to find the data I'm interested in.

    I think both use cases could be helped if LINQPad could open a temporary tab with the top 10 or 25 rows when clicking/navigating with the keyboard in the tables list in the left pane in LINQPad.
    Preferably the results should be sorted descending by the primary key (at least for…

    3 votes
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  14. Using grid view, the column widths are currently set for the minimum to handle the header text, often visually truncating cell values even if there is unused width available in the grid UI.

    If nothing else, divide the available space by the available columns to compute a minimum initial column width. Even better would be if it takes the retrieved values into account and make narrow valued columns narrower.

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  15. Not sure how viable this is, but I spent all day today trying to find the source of an assembly collision that prevented some code compiling in Linqpad, only to find that the stray version originated from Linqpad itself!

    If possible, I suggest you avoid injecting Devart.Data / Devart.Data.Oracle assemblies into the query app domain if later versions of those assemblies are already being (directly) referenced by the query. Otherwise you create assembly binding issues for the compiler.

    Failing that, Linqpad.config should probably have some binding redirects for DevArt.Data / DevArt.Data.Oracle

    (Linqpad 4.55 references DevArt.Data.Oracle 7.9.333.0, my query references assemblies…

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  17. LINQPad supports editing of function/view definitions. It would be great if we could also edit table definition, like SSMS offers (script table as...).

    That feature is the only reason I'm using SSMS.

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  18. Add to DumpLatest option similar to what 'watch' command does with flag '--differences'.

    This would allow nice&easy visual monitoring of changes in any data.
    I use for example code like this to visually monitor changes in DB:
    Observable.Interval( System.TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2) )
    .Select(x => this.GetSomeDBTable )
    .DumpLatest();

    Having any changes in dump output highlighted with for example yellow background would be nice.

    6 votes
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  19. It would be great if LINQPad could create classes from a JSON object in the clipboard (Just like the WebEssentials extension for VisualStudio can do)

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  20. when I call " Console.writeline(Obj); " with an overridden ToString in my Obj then LinqPad does not show the simple String Output but some kind of formatted object structure of Obj. I did not find a switch for that behaviour anwhere. I can work around with using Debug.WriteLine instead of Console, but a simple switch in the UI or Preferences would be nicer.

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