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  1. in "C# Program" mode:

    void Main()
    {
    ...
    }
    // Define other methods and classes here

    include MyClass.cs // <--- something like this

    So that we can have MyClass defined in another file (MyClass.cs) and just include it instead of copy&pasting the code. This would allow better code separation and re-use.

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  2. I love the new Shift-F1 feature (launches .NET Reflector) ...really excellent idea, just one small issue... I don't have .NET reflector!

    It would be really useful if I could select either dotpeek, or JustDecompile instead.

    11 votes
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  3. I use SSMS quite a lot for queries that I use often. One missing feature in SSMS is collapsible regions, but there is a plugin for doing that. This has made canned queries that I use often more easy. It would be nice to have something like that in LinqPad. It would be handy to be able for instance to create canned queries that have a few variables at the top and a region of query code that is collapsed so that it is easier to look at and harder to mess up the code by accident.

    3 votes
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  4. 3 votes
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  5. Just like Visual Studio, using Ctrl-Tab to swap between the most recently used tabs. I'm not looking for a dialog popup like VS (though not discouraging it if you're interested in going that far). I do a lot of swapping between tabs running a couple "queries" multiple times (in quotes because LinqPad is really my scratch-pad editor and I use that about equal with my use for actual queries).

    FWIW: I looked to see if this was already suggested. I thought I saw it a couple years ago, but didn't see it on the new site.

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  6. 97 votes
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  7. I'd like to be able to paste code straight into Linqpad (using statements and all) and immediately execute it. I find the time it takes to manually add in the references and using statements totally kills "the moment" and I end up pasting the code into Visual Studio instead because I'm in a hurry, sob sob!

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  8. I do read the blog posts of James Michael Hare (http://blackrabbitcoder.net) very frequently, along other blogposts.

    Some of the examples i copy and past in Linqpad, so i can try them out.

    Regrettably if you copy and paste the code all the lines start with linenumbers.

    The VS2010 editor has in this respect a very handy feature, with the shift-alt key-combination one can select a rectangle and delte/copy/cut it.

    So my request to you is, if you have the time ( :-), to build it into Linqpad.

    Thnxs in advance!

    Kind regards,

    Henk

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  9. Be able to set breakpoints within the LinqPad IDE as well as perform a debugging session for the Linq Expressions in a manner similar to the Visual Studio IDE.

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  10. Pluralizing and capitalizing tables names can confuse developers and DBAs ... And demand an extra effort to rename que lambda expressions before using it in the original application... Leaving the table names as is... is more usefull cause we can copy/paste the generated lambda expressions.....

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  11. There should be an option to hide the left pane allowing us to consume the maximum real estate of the screen to work with the query and result window.

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  12. Often when I am working in LinqPad, I iterate to retrieve some large dataset via some (relatively) expensive operation - from a remote server or disk, or some calculations. Once retrieved, I continue to iterate my Linqpad query, performing different investigative operations on the data.

    It would be great if linqpad had an API where I could 'shelve' the returned data, and access it in laters runs of the same query/session.

    I could do this manually, by serializing to disk, but it would be great it if was built in.

    An API with an IDictionary<string, object> interface would be all…

    9 votes
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  13. Connecting with IQ driver to Oracle is fantastic but it would be good to be able to filter out certain tables from the right hand tree view. Specfically Oracle has Bin$ and AQ$ tables that just pollutes that view. This is an option avialble in Oracle SQL Developer.

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  14. Add the ability to autoimplement an interface or abstract class like in Visual Studio. LINQPad already has the namespace importing like VS, so the UI for it exists.

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  15. Doing a simple EF query:
    this.BaseEntitySet.Include("NavProp1.SubNav").Include("NavProp2.ManyMany.OtherDetail")
    then there is soooooo much space=width wasted by EntityState and EntityKey columns in which I most of the time don't have any interrest in.

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  16. Ability to add NuGet packages to linpad just like you can in visual studio 2010

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  18. Nuget integration into linqpad for automatically adding dll in a folder and embed them in a query

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  19. OData 3.0 Ctp is released and we are using it in our site. can linqpad please support it?

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  20. The current SQL Azure connection does not disable Log on with Windows Auth (never allowed in SQL Azure).

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