.. while writing this explanation I noticed that my Async void Main() had an incorrect return type.

After changing it to Task, everything works as expected.

Could you please report it as an error when or warning (green squigly) when writing "async void Main" and suggest "async Task Main" instead ?

When doing the void' version, Linqpad executes and never waits - so the program completes, but run in the background...

When I turn on compiler optimizations the query timer disappears. This might be intentional. However, when I disable compiler optimizations the query timer remains hidden. Restarting the application shows the timer again.

I'm using v6.9.15 Pro Edition.

I happened upon the feature yesterday randomly by clicking on the Help menu. It would be awesome if it either got moved to a context menu action or even a new menu group (Tools for instance) for better visibility.

Please make a hotkey for reconnect current selected database in connection dropdown.

I often loose connection to database. Sometimes I intentionally have to break connection by turning off VPN. Sometimes I do something else in between and connection times out. Then I have to de-select and re-select the same database connection in the dropdown. It's a bit annoying to do this 20 times in a day since it breaks the work flow. Having a hotkey for this would make things smooth.

When I try to start LINQPad 6, I get a message "To run this application, you must install .NET Core". Please either provide a version of LINQPad with its own bundled .NET Core version ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/ ), detect "dotnet" on the PATH, or support starting LINQPad 6 with an argument pointing to the SDK location (which can be anywhere if you download the SDK as a ZIP from https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core/3.1 or https://github.com/dotnet/installer ).

I wanted to make my progressbar show the label above the progressbar. To do this I ended up viewing the source of the ProgressBar and creating my own copy just to modify the Render. This would be greatly simplified if the ProgressBar control exposed the Render method.

protected override object Render() { }

then I could simply inherit the control I want override its rendering logic.

Similar to visual studio. I have a linqpad script that gets copied into different bin folders. If I have the script open I have no idea which one it is without doing open containing folder.

Time and again I hit Alt-Backspace, which is normally Undo (in Visual Studio, Word, etc.; same as Ctrl-Z), but in LinqPad it activates the menu — this throws me off completely! When I finally recover, I've lost my context and forgotten what I was typing.

Dump doesn't extend ReadOnlySpan<char> right now. It'd be nice to have something like
"xxx".AsSpan().Dump();

Using "await foreach(...)" in C# statements causes a compiler error unless an expression is also awaited: CS4033 The 'await' operator can only be used within an async method. Consider marking this method with the 'async' modifier and changing its return type to 'Task'.

So "await Task.Yield(); await foreach(...)" works as expected, while "await foreach(...)" doesn't.

As an aside: VB Statements/Espression don't seem support Async/Await at all currently. I am not really affected by it because I don't use it, but I thought this might be worth noting nonetheless. This also applies to LINQPad 5

.NET Core is gaining adoption, and I find myself needing to experiment on .NET Core more and more, especially since .NET Core has it's own surface area. It be great to be able to do this in LINQPad.

I don't need LINQPad to run Mac/Linux, just the Windows version to be able to target .NET Core.

Resharper implments the most useful text selection feature other. CTRL+W extends the currently selected text out to the containing scope. Hit it again and it extends the selection again. And so on.

It's an absolutely amazing way for selecting block of code, or full method, or an entire class declaration, etc - all from the current cursor position.

This feature alone is easily one of my most used Resharper features. I'd love to have it in Linqpad!

Sometimes I end up .Dump()ing things a few times in a row, then manually v-diffing to see what changed.
It'd be nice if there was a function that could calculate that for me, probably involving having to snapshot the state/output then diffing against the previous snapshot.

I would like to be able to reference a .NET Core csproj file from LINQPad, similar to how NuGet references work. LINQPad could read the package references from the csproj file and add those NuGet packages, then it could locate the dll that is output by the csproj and add that as a reference. This would make testing changes made in a project with LINQPad extremely simple. Currently I have to package the project, move the package to a local NuGet feed, clear the LINQPad NuGet cache for that package, and readd the package reference in LINQPad.

Install Notepad++ -> Create a New File -> Close Notepad -> No Annoying Save File Dialogs -> Re-open Notepadd++ -> Files are Still there

Many use cases.

Keeps my flow going if you will