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  1. When I generate a DataContext through sqlmetal, it converts all char fields to strings. Not what I'd expect it to do, but not a bad idea.
    When I generate my entities through LinqPad, char fields are left as char, making my sqlmetal generated code incompatible with LinqPad.

    Just as there are options on pluralizing and capitalisation, It would be useful to have a "convert char to string" option as well.

    9 votes
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  2. 16 votes
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  3. I am so used to the 'save on compile' option in Visual Studio, that I can't get into the habit of saving in Linqpad until I have finished or closing linqpad (and since Linqpad is so useful it never gets closed).

    This has resulted in me losing work several times.

    Would it be hard to add an option to save files to the temporary folder when a query is run.
    Don't need there is a need to attempt to recover the files, as I can go looking for them.

    Thanks

    22 votes
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  4. In this case i can use LinqPad as ODateClient, see nice result and can export the result to Excel ...

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  5. For people who end up having more than just a few connections, it would be very handy to be able to group connections by server (perhaps default to the server name but also allow the user to replace it with an alias).

    23 votes
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  6. It would be great to be able to print source (and output) from linqpad.

    34 votes
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  7. I have an SQL Server database which is being used for a MVC 4 project in VS 2010. I'm using LINQPad to run queries against my database. When I open LINQPad, I can connect to my .mdf database file and run queries as expected. When I close LINQPad, open up VS and try to view my database in server explorer the following error is shown:

    "The database 'C:..... .MDF' cannot be opened because it is version 706. This server supports version 655 and earlier. A downgrade path is not supported. Could not open new database 'C:..... .MDF'. CREATE DATABASE is…

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  8. I use LinqPad for deployment scripts, and it would be really useful to be able to write error messages to the console in Red. Currently ForegroundColor does not work.

    24 votes
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  9. SQL Server Management Studio has a Parse (Ctrl-F5) feature under the Query menu vs. Execute (F5); and Visual Studio has a Build Solution vs. Start Debugging (F5). Both of these options allow you to check for syntax or compile errors without executing the query or running the program. I was surprised not to find this feature in LINQPad also. This would be a very useful feature to me. I hope we could see it in an upcoming release. Thanks, I love LINQPad!

    31 votes
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  10. When the query is running there is a counter but after it completes the counter goes away, can you leave it up?

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  11. Query Properties - Profiles

    Set and save different Profiles for query properties. We have different code branches for development and release cycles. It would be great if I could setup and switch between different profiles for a LINQ script.

    4 votes
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  12. When writing for example:

    from u in Users
    select new
    {
    UserDetails = (from ud in ....
    }

    When I press "u" I would expect u as the alias for Users in the outer query, but it picks up everything.

    4 votes
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  13. A HTML Browser/Editor will be welcome to make simple pages for documentation and other funcionality...
    Show page in full query window in browser mode and supply a button to enter edit mode (top pane for visual edit/dump pane for html edit)... a direct HTML edit mode can be edited in lower pane (Dump panel)...

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  14. I am working with StreamInsight and I highly recommend to give us the option to include the full ticks when displaying a datetime value, this would be extremelly useful.

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  15. Allow the LINQ expression tree to be modified before executing the query. I do this in my app so we can write our queries without having to worry about making them multi-tenant. But when I pop the query from our source code into LINQPad, I have to manually edit the query to make it multi-tenant. Would be great if we could hook in a custom ExpressionVisitor.

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  16. Add feature that allows exported Excel data from a SQL database to be refreshed as the SQL database is updated with new data

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  17. The connection tree view currently defaults to using dbo as the top level schema to display. For databases that have other schemas, you have to scroll down and expand them. For some databases this is a pain, because the schema that I work in isn't dbo. It would be useful to be able to define a default schema for each connection.

    3 votes
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  18. I just bought the autocompletion but I'm disappointed by the fact that LinqPad catches key combinations that I use to enter polish national characters (namely ALT-S). I'd like to be able to turn off this keyboard shortcut or redefine it. The ALT-something shortcuts are very risky as Windows often uses them for the national characters. And it's annoying when instead of just entering a letter into the editor window it activates SQL panel. PLEASE fix it.

    11 votes
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  19. When viewing data in the grid and using the "Export to CSV file", the resulting file doesn’t have a BOM (byte order mark), and so when you double-click the CSV file, Excel opens up and (at least in Excel 2010) shows the following dialog box:

    The file you are trying to open, 'MyData.csv', is in a different format than specified by the file extension. Verify that the file is not corrupt and is from a trusted source before opening the file. Do you want to open the file now?

    If you click 'Yes', another dialog box is displayed:

    Excel has…

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  20. Often I copy a method or class to LinqPad and then change the language to C# Program, which wraps all the code inside Main().
    It would be nice to not do this if LinqPad detects the existing code contains methods/classes.

    2 votes
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