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  1. 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.

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 20 votes
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  5. 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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  6. Currently, there is no way to browse the synonyms that are set up for a specific database in the object explorer.

    A view of all synonyms for a database would be useful.

    4 votes
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  7. Sometimes I'm working on 10-15 scripts at a time, using LINQPad as a true scratch pad for C#. I don't necessarily want to save the scripts, but having a visible name for them - instead of Query N - while they aren't the active tab would be extremely useful.

    My idea is to use the first line of the script as this temporary name, as long as the first line is a comment. As an example, see how Sublime Text works.

    4 votes
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  8. When you want place a code that uses Typed Generic List (List<T>), Intellisense does not suggest syntax.. i.e:

    List<string> fields = new List<string>(){"One","Two","Three"};

    When you type List, must to appears List<T> suggestion.

    7 votes
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  9. Due to work requirements, I cannot use linqpad in our production environment. Instead I will need to generate a SQL script. This is possible right now, however it requires that you include a SaveChanges call to the context to generate a real script which will also execute the change. It would be nice to generate the script without actually executing the script, this way I can test the SQL script against my test environment without having to reset the data that was changed by executing the script in linqpad.

    4 votes
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  10. When I enter a class name from a namespace that isn't referenced, a little auto-suggestion hint appears. In VS+R# I would hit Alt+Enter to open this menu, and then Enter to accept.

    In LinqPad I have to use the mouse to do this.

    4 votes
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  11. The Licensing conditions say: "three computers ... plus 3 virtual machines running MS VPC, Hyper-V or VMWare". Does anyone else use Oracle's Virtual Box to run VM's in a development environment? Whenever I install LinqPad on a VBox VM, it counts against my PC installs and is not detected as a VM. VM's are for tearing down and setting up quickly and so the "six transfers per year" doesn't cut it either. I actually bought a second license to have to stop deactivating from my non-VM hardware so often.

    9 votes
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  12. If I have an enumeration of nodes that can be of type text/html/custom I get the class specific properties in their own columns but there is not indication on the actual class of each line.

    When debugging or investigating deep class hierarchies knowing the exact class each line was would be very helpful.

    Now one have to determine this through the properties which is not always easy, especially with library code that you have no internal knowledge of.

    1 vote
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  13. When I switch tabs, I don't want the Query-tree to update to find the query I'm currently editing. When you have lots of folders it gets rather irritating after a while.

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  14. This great product offers support for so many database types, but the major one lacking is IBM DB2. You can do this through EF, but you will not be able to see the SQL that your linq queries generate.

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  15. I often have multiple LINQPad windows open under different credentials, required for operations against remote servers, but I loose track of which is which. I'd be handy for me to show the username in the title bar (perhaps only if impersonating via RUNAS)

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  16. Our database has an audit field:

    [ActionDateUtc] DATETIMEOFFSET NOT NULL CONSTRAINT DEFAULT (SYSDATETIMEOFFSET()),

    When I click "Add Row", this field is defaulted blank rather than null, and annoying since the only way to enter a date at this point is to manually key it in.

    Save fails due to SQL overflow, and since save happens when you move off the record, it's not easy to copy/paste an existing one.

    Ideally it would be fantastic if LINQPad would recognize that the value will be supplied by the DB, failing that a right click menu to enter 'now' or 'utc now' would…

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  17. I shared a script with a colleague today. However we realised it would not run because I was using and referencing logic from the My Extensions script.

    My idea is that when a script is uploaded to instance share, it should include (or allow me include) logic from the My Extensions script, so that the script is able to be run on another machine without modification

    10 votes
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  18. I'd created an idea for LINQPad to offer a REPL experience already (since I can't use language features like LINQ comprehension syntax or the like from PowerShell scripts), but now that Roslyn CTP is out and csx / C# script is alive, I'm hoping that the effort required would be much lower in LINQPad to offer a REPL. If it only works when Roslyn is installed, then that's fine with me, and it helps bridge the functionality gap for those of us that love LINQPad but want to use it as a REPL so we can keep results/objects/graphs in memory…

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  19. When working with curom assembly and connection string coming from config it's not clear which database and server working with as name of the connection will be name of the db contesxt in particular assembly.

    It would be really useful to find out which server and database names and also allow different color code base on the name of database or server to distinguish between dev/test/prod.

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  20. EF queries the __MigrationHistory each time the DbContext is opened to ensure the DB context is in sync with the DB. This can be very expensive. Can LinqPad provide an option to skip this check by doing Database.SetInitializer<UserQuery>(null)?

    UserQuery seems to be the class that gets derived from the user created DbContext.

    4 votes
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