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  1. I have LinqPad pinned for easy access but every time LinqPad is upgraded the pinned version points to the old file and I have to remove that one and re pin the new version.

    Not a big problem but a little annoying ;)

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  2. Support authentication using Azure Active Directory. This is necessary for OData endpoints in services tied to Office 365 such as CRM Online and Microsoft Dynamics Marketing. Please see http://community.adxstudio.com/blogs/shan/2014-12-10-using-odata-feeds-with-mdm/ and how Power Query authenticates against OData using Microsoft Organization Account for authentication.

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  3. Something like this here: https://dotnetfiddle.net/

    Should just take a few seconds to add it to the status bar.
    Say, Peak memory, Average memory and CPU user, and kernel time, for a start.

    And perhaps even a detailed heap views separately later on. Could be very useful to actual understanding the efficiency of the quick snippets in LINQPad first, that make it into projects only later :)

    4 votes
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  4. The debugger in LINQPad 4.5 is awesome, but not as good as Visual Studio's. Before the beta, I was using Debugger.Launch/Break to debug in VS. Now, those launch LINQPad's debugger. Unless and until the debugger is as good as VS's, I would like some kind of button or something (as long as it's faster than using the preferences) to use an external debugger.

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  5. I'm starting to have a big folder hierarchy in My Queries, using each sub folder for a specific purpose.

    The MyExtensions class is growing huge, if I could have one extension class per sub folder I would organize my extensions in a much clearer way.

    I also hit a wall when I wanted to use a dll from a previous version that was already included in the global extensions. My query failed with exception: "Assembly 'MyExtensions.FW40 ...' uses 'MyAssembly, Version 2.0.0.0' which has a higher version than referenced assembly 'MyAssembly, Version 1.0.0.0'.

    8 votes
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  6. I have recently started looking at the generated Intermediate Language and it makes a lot of stuff clear on why C#(in my case) behaves the way it does.
    It would be nice to have a tutorial about IL and how to interpret it along with some examples explaining the behaviour of certain operations.

    3 votes
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  7. Currently I can right-click on connection and pick Refresh to refresh schemas for all tables. I'd like to be able to do the same with individual table as with Azure driver refreshing schemas for all tables takes a very long time.

    3 votes
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  8. I work at a company where (a) only DBAs can change the DB, and (b) the DBAs avoid adding foreign keys. So, when LinqPad builds the table objects, they lack the association properties. I'd like to be able to add them when working with LinqPad. (in-memory only is fine for now; persisting them can wait for some future suggestion....)

    11 votes
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  9. I use LINQPad a lot to test new methods, classes etc in my own binaries without having to actually deploy them to a web server or run through a lot of steps in a program.

    Usually I have a template LINQPad-script with the binaries and NuGet packages added. Every time I want to write a new on though I have to open the template and right click the tab to select "Clone Query". Sometimes I accidentally mark a part of the query and have to redo it.

    I would really like it if the context menu of My Queries had…

    4 votes
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  10. When viewing some complex data structures, it would be very useful to be able to re-dump particular parts of the structure. I.e., either by right clicking a cell or by using the > arrow that brings up the menu with 'View in grid', I'd like to be able to dump that particular element.

    3 votes
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  11. Code folding is neat and all, but to some users it is just an annoyance. Please allow us to disable it.

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  12. LINQPad should be able to join results from two different database platforms in one Query.

    In our situation we would like to use it to join data stored in RavenDB with data stored in SQL Server. But I can imagine that there are many real life environments where one would like to join data in one database platform with data in another database platform

    6 votes
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  13. I often use LinqPad and dump to explore existing data structures that I need to extract data from or reformat.

    Many times these structures contain many irrelevant properties and children.

    I have often wished for a way to eliminate these from the displayed tree to make the output more readable.

    For example, in a parser tree there is often positional information and also many times the original source for the current element.

    This takes very much space in the output making it very hard to follow.

    If I could supply dump with a lambda that accepted the property name and…

    6 votes
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  14. Permit access to crm online

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  15. Normally Dump() will show the type and length of an array, as well as it's contents. However, empty arrays are shown as "(0 items)", it would be good too see that the object is indeed an array of a specific type.

    So e.g. if I do:

    ====
    var fields = "".Split(',')

    fields.Dump();

    We see:

    String[] (0 items)

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  16. I want to send a link to my team and have them test drive premium for a few days. If they like it, we want to buy a bunch of licenses. A trial offer that lets us use it in real development for a few days is critical.

    108 votes
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  17. I have a static generic method in MyExtensions. In the debugger, all of the local variables show up as members of this which is of type MyExtensions+<MyMethod>d__5`[System.Char]. If I try to watch any local variables, I get (Error - Not enough generic arguments). I get the same error when I try to watch a member of my (non-generic) enum.

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  18. If I go into add references and select FSharp.Core.dll from C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\FSharp.NETFramework\v4.0\4.3.0.0

    Linqpad will no longer run giving a message from what I believe is the Fsc compiler saying

    error FS1222: When mscorlib.dll or FSharp.Core.dll is explicitly referenced the --noframework option must also be passed

    13 votes
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  19. 20 votes
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  20. I want to convert this statement using linq pad my quey is

    SELECT * FROM TblSourceA FULL OUTER JOIN TblSourceB ON TblSourceA.First=TblSourceB.First OR TblSourceA.Last=TblSourceB.Last;

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