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  1. Allow to add references to NuGet packages

    1 vote
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  2. Autoclosing connnection to DB

    (useful when I have to drop and recreate DB often)

    1 vote
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  3. create Comment uncomment button/shortcuts

    In visual studio and SSMS we have buttons/shortcuts to highlight a block of code and comment it out or uncomment it. I would like to be able to comment in and out parts based on changes I make to one based on the other.

    9 votes
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  4. Add the ability to toggle "My Queries" and "Samples" as favorites

    I'm getting a large collection of files in "My Queries". The "Organize..." button helps but it would be great if the files in the trees had stars icon that I could click on to toggle as favourite scripts. Perhaps a third tab named "Favourites" that lists them all together?

    LINQPad rocks!

    4 votes
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  5. Add option to expand wildcards in SQL

    VS 2010 Premium or Ultimate has a refactor feature (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd193416.aspx) for SQL that allows the expansion of wildcards such that:

    TableA
    {
    Col1 int
    Col2 int
    Col3 int
    }

    select * from TableA could be refactored into:

    select [t0].Col1, [t0].Col2, [t0].Col3 from TableA [t0]

    Much of the time I will start out writing the select * from TableA statement and later need to go back and define out the columns.

    3 votes
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  6. Script data in tables as a function

    A function that autoscripts the data of particular (selected) table(s) into a SQL formatting. It would help me to completely get SQL Enterprise Mngr out... Now I do this via "select database", Tasks, Generate Scripts, Select Advanced button and change the types of data to script to: Schema and Data.

    1 vote
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  7. Impersonation for Linqpad

    Many times I am unable to execute operations on a remote machine and also I need to execute a set of operations on machine which is in another domain. In that case it would be nice If I can impersonate linqpad to use a different credential.
    Few suggestions
    1. Add Util.Runs (username, password)
    2. Store a list of users with linqpad like connections so that the user credentials are encrypted and can be just called as
    Util.Runas("refer User connection Name");

    7 votes
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  8. Hexadecimal output formatting option

    It will be very useful, if output pane can be easily switched between decimal and hex notations (when testing ciphering or protocol algorithms, decimal notation is pretty useless). And how about Dump() extension optional formatting specifiers?

    8 votes
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  9. Display documentation intellisense from <dll>.XML file

    Visual Studio (and cs.exe) have the option of generating a .xml documentation file alongside the .dll & .pdb. This file enables documentation intellisense.
    Linqpad should be able to provide this intellisense

    8 votes
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  10. Option to Pluralize or singularize entity names

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  11. Add ability to customize the table context menu in the schema tree

    The table context menu items in v4.37 are much improved especially adding the 'Explore top 100 …' - Thanks you!

    But I would like the ability to add extra menu items for example to run a custom visualizer or perhaps a different query template to the ones provided.

    9 votes
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  12. Bug...v4.37.9... Util.GetPassword() ... running on Win 7 64 Ent..... UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path '<User>\AppData\Local\L

    Bug?...v4.37.9... Util.GetPassword() ... running on Win 7 64 Ent..... UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path '<User>\AppData\Local\LINQPad\Passwords' is denied. When trying to save password. Have tried running as admin too.

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  13. Physical DB Data Model View

    I found LINQPad can also support SQL command query and this does make helps sometimes. However, the left-up view can only show the entity model, it's will be more helpful if this view can also show the physical data model like many other SQL tools show. By referring this physical data model we can make correct SQL commands more easily.

    1 vote
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  14. Database rename renames the connection.

    Right clicking on the database and selecting Rename actually brings the window to rename the connection and not the database. So, either the context menu for the database needs to be fixed, or the renaming of the database should be allowed. Otherwise it is misleading.

    1 vote
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  15. Provide support for this Select overload

    groups1.OrderBy(x=>x.Key).Select((x, ixc)=> new {Iter = ixc, GroupName = x.Key})

    2 votes
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  16. (Optionally) show a different icon for each language in the My Queries treeview

    (Optionally) show a different icon for each language in the My Queries treeview. Also show different overlays for expressions, statements, programs, etc. for each language. Maybe filters can be applied to sort things out. Make logical folder (like search folders in Outlook) to distinguish the items.

    2 votes
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  17. Linq to Collections, DataSet and Objects

    Provide support for Linq to Collections, Linq to DataSet, Linq to XSD and Linq to Objects.

    1 vote
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  18. Ctrl+E as synonym for F5

    Please could you add Ctrl+E as a shortcut for executing the query, this would be consistent with SSMS

    6 votes
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  19. Display StackTrace on exception

    Difficult to debug without it - I'm using LINQPad as a sandbox for most of my development, much faster than VS2010

    4 votes
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  20. Update the static driver sample code to detect Context properties of type IEnumerable<T>.

    The UniversalStaticDriver class does not detect the properties of the customType parameter that are directly of type IEnumerable<T>. If the customType inherits IEnumerable<T> (like say via IList<T>) then the property is detected. But if the property is actually declared as IEnumerable<T> then it is passed over.

    I changed the line that declared ienumerableOfT from:

                let ienumerableOfT = prop.PropertyType.GetInterface ("System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1")
            where ienumerableOfT != null

    to

                let ienumerableOfT = (prop.PropertyType.GetGenericTypeDefinition() == typeof(IEnumerable<>) ? prop.PropertyType : null)
                                ?? prop.PropertyType.GetInterface("System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1")

    Kinda hacky, but it fixed the problem for me. Probably a better solution would be to recurse through the type and all inherited types…

    0 votes
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