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  1. Highlight current line

    It would be nice to be able to show the current editor line with a different background colour. The standard tooltip colour would be fine but make it customisable if you really want :-)

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  2. Allow hitting Escape key to trigger 'cancel' like Shift-F5 does

    Since hitting Esc doesn't seem to trigger any other action, it would be useful for those of us with muscle memory to hit it when we accidentally ran something we shouldn't have. Much faster/simpler than the 2-key combo of Shift-F5. :)

    I'm not trying to ask for the larger-scope 'allow remapping keyboard shortcuts', just the Escape key. :)

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  3. Make Nutshell database & log attachable under SS 2008 R2 (not the Express version)

    This would make it so much easier for those who have the non-Express version installed.

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  4. *.MDB support (Microsoft Access database)

    Microsoft *.mdb file are very small, compact, efficient, and very easy to use with .NET
    I personally use them because of their size (very very small), and everything is located in this unique file (data, provider, queries.. everything!).
    People think there are limited, I believe with LINQ they are now as efficient as any other !!
    Please give us support to .mdb file, I'm waiting on this since your first LinqPad public release (yep.. that's a long time waiting)
    Thanks in advance for your beautifull software !!!

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  5. Donate your "Add Custom Assembly Reference" code to the next version of Visual Studio.

    They haven't gotten it right in over 10 years! In 2010 it got a little better. But they need your asynchronous search capability!

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  6. Provide method to enable LinqPad.exe to swallow exceptions

    Can't safely call Write on the TextWriter provided by LinqPad's CreateXhtmlWriter when debugging. If any properties within the object being written throw an exception, the debugger catches this exception and writing ceases.

    The only workarounds are to 'Continue' after each exception (which is tedious if many are thrown), or to disable CLR exceptions and then re-enable them when done.

    It's not possible to have the object's properties not throw exceptions, as they are lazy loaded and will throw when certain fields are not initialised.

    3 votes
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  7. Add new Language Type C# Auto

    It might be possible to parse the query contents looking for a Main Block or an ; separator to determine if the query is to be treated as C# Expression, C# Statements or C# Program? If so, this would have the advantage that would can highlight and execute statements that happen to be in a 'C# Program' query (rather than having to copy them to another query window).

    6 votes
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  8. Connection Timeout option

    I get timeout error if initialize Linq to Sql Connection at local sql server with many database inside. Please add a timeout option to it.

    Thank you very much.

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  9. Add an option to set the default behavior for intellisense

    i.e. Always Show Full List (or press Ctrl+Space or Ctrl+H). Currently you MUST press those keys to get a full list. It would be nice to have an option to show the full list every time.

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  10. ICustomTypeDescriptor

    Test for implementations of ICustomTypeDescriptor and use that interface to display results if it's implemented

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  11. .Dump support for DataSets, DataTables, etc.

    Like the title says add .Dump support for DataSets, DataTables, etc. ...all of the DataSet objects.

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  12. CTRL + mouse roll to resize Results pane

    CTRL + Roll is great to resize the query window, being able to do the same in the results pane would be really useful also. With slightly complex queries the output in the Results pane 9although nicely formatted in the HTML) can be rather too big to view on a small screen. The option to resize would be a great help.

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  13. Import XML File for Querying

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  14. Undock Results With or Without Second Monitor

    My laptop is 1920 x 1200. I would like to have the Results undocked.

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  15. Provide a way to a attach VS2010 debugger

    Likely due to running in a separate appdomain I cannot attach VS2010 to linqpad in order to debug my own code that linqpad calls.

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  16. Include navigation properties as cells in output, allow expansion of them after initial query

    Many times after running an expensive query, I realize that there's one more navigation property that I want to see the results of following it. Currently that means rewriting the initial query enough to do so and then re-running the entire query.

    The idea is that instead, when an entity/row is written to the output, it includes cells for the navigation properties as well (not just scalar ones) with those cells containing buttons, or links, or whatever such that the user can 'trigger' them while interacting with the results pane.

    This would both prevent users from having to re-create and…

    4 votes
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  17. Provide a shortcut for inserting the text .Dump()

    probably this one of the instructions you need most in linqpad

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  18. Web Repository of Linq Files public and private

    Allowing synchronisation of our own files across machines - possibly via google docs. Dropbox might help here....

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  19. Add support for ASP.NET .aspx Pages

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  20. Allow Interop

    A simple window where Interop definitions can be pasted. These could then be referenced in the main window, methods could quickly be explored and tested.

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