It is currently impossible to distinguish between a NULL value and a string that happens to be spelled, "null" because LinqPAD displays "null" (lowercase) for both of them. SSMS displays NULL (uppercase) for NULL values, and to differentiate between NULL values and a string spelled, "NULL", SSMS highlights actual NULL values with a special background color (a soft yellow). LinqPAD should do the same thing, or something similar, to make it more obvious if the value is NULL or a string that just happens to be spelled "NULL".

Dump if predicate is true

Add "My Extensions" to search results of the Navigate to Query dialog

Basically you need to change the ProcessStartInfo.StandardOutputEncoding with the supplied codepage, or get the default from registry. Localized versions of Windows will print gibberish with basic operations like Util.Cmd("ping localhost")

Name User License so I log on for use software with same attual restriction (6 user for license activated). So I can use the software without active/deactive but limit of connection for user

Some package, like "Microsoft.ChakraCore", "Libuv", or "JavaScriptEngineSwitcher.ChakraCore.Native.win-x64", does not have .NET Assembly, instead, they provide a native assembly to PInvoke.

However, this cannot be done in LINQPad, when installing these packages, an error message "There are no usable .NET assemblies in package 'XYZ'" was shown.

Please do not prevent us to do that, at least popup a warning dialog saying something like "Looks like you're not installing the .NET Assembly, go on?", and gives us a option to proceed the PInvoke test.

Related topic: http://forum.linqpad.net/discussion/1680/please-dont-prevent-installing-native-package-in-linqpad#latest

Name resulting query dll from QueryName + unique DateTime

Currently: query_gppfcs.dll

Suggested: AwesomeStuff_20180927_164537.dll

Where AwesomeStuff is the name of the user .linq query.

It would be nice if FSharp Option types would render as (value | null), rather than, at the moment, as a nested table with (Some(value) | None)

This would be consistent with the rendering for Nullable<T>, which prefers readability over being totally strict around the type system.

I appreciate you don't want to add an endless list of special cases, but this would be really useful.

"Show all nestings levels" works only for the first items! Not for all. Please fix!

Dim wnd As New NativeWindow()
wnd.AssignHandle(Process.GetProcessById (Util.HostProcessID).MainWindowHandle)

'Add the above code or the c# version of it to a Util function that lets us pop up dialogs that show above the linqpadwindow.
'_____
Dim browser = New FolderBrowserDialog With {.ShowNewFolderButton = False, .SelectedPath = pth}
If browser.ShowDialog(wnd) = DialogResult.OK Then
pth = browser.SelectedPath
End If

My default for an SQL-result is "data grids". But when running a script from a saved SQL-file, the result is shown as rich text (html).

Please apply the default in this situation as well. Thx

Setup:

a.linq:
"a".Dump();

b.linq:
"b".Dump();

Delete all *.dll, *.pdb in plugins folder (for example, LINQPad Plugins\Framework 4.6), leave the MyExtensions.FW46.linq file for compilation;

Then run: lprun a.linq | lprun b.linq

This is the output:
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c:\users\user\Documents\LINQPad Queries>lprun a.linq | lprun b.linq
IOException: The process cannot access the file 'C:\Users\User\Documents\LINQPad Plugins\Framework 4.6\MyExtensions.FW46.dll' because it is being used by another process.
at LINQPad.TaskExtensions.GetResult[T](Task`1 t)
at LINQPad.MyExtensionsManager.CheckForStaleExtensions()
at LINQPad.CmdLineAppHost.Run()
at LINQPad.Cmd.LPCmd.Run(String[] args)
b
-----

The latest SEP virus definition update has flagged LINQPad.exe as a virus and Quarantined it.

void Main()
{
// You can also make custom inline progress bars as follows:
foreach (var element in Enumerable.Range(0, 100).DumpProgressBar("Most common usage of progress"))
{
Thread.Sleep (30);
}
}

public static class Extension
{
public static IEnumerable<T> DumpProgressBar<T>(this IEnumerable<T> valuesList, string title = null)
{
int total = valuesList.Count();
int position = 0;

var progressBar = new Util.ProgressBar(title).Dump();
progressBar.HideWhenCompleted = true;

foreach (var element in valuesList)
{
progressBar.Percent = (++position * 100) / total;
yield return element;
}
}
}

sharing scripts, using sharepoint or something similar to teams sharing documents

LINQPad adds * (asterisk) indicator char to the current tab when saved script is changed (char removed/added, etc). It would be great if this * (asterisk) indicator is removed as soon as changes are undone by multiple CTRL+Z commands. As for now, even if file is restored to the original state, the asterisk is still displayed and it's difficult to tell if the file was really changed or not (safe to resave or not?).

Please consider implementing this feature, it should be a piece of cake! :)

Thanks!