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  1. Give option to disable encryption of the Connection

    Give a checkbox option to disable encryption of connection string and database password. Or some ways to dynamically change like password from system variables. Because the portable version connections doesn't work by copying x-copying everything to other system in automation.

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  2. run query from context menu

    Very simple, right click on current query window and run query. Same as SSMS. If text is highlighted then run that context instead.

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  3. Copy columns

    When clicking on the header of a colomn the column gets selected and you can copy the entire column

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  4. Option for marked as "Production" database connections

    It would be nice to have an option for database connections marked as "Production" to be able or not be able to save changes, modify or delete etc.

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  5. Add a console like package manager

    A console on the bottom side like the package manager on VS. Having the ability to run powershell, cmd or your own linqpad scripts. By default on the query directory. This way, you can chain commands with your own scripts and things like that to automate things.

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  6. Git/Github integration for our queries

    I don't mean a fully support as it's hard to do. Just Commit and Merge or something like that. I don't mind on configure the first time the repositorioes, but it would be nice too. Maybe something like the Team Explorer (Idk if you can take advantage of that). I use multiples PCs and I do that manually from the console (easier to forget to do it).

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  7. Add ability to highlight text/row in output window which matches some text passed to Dump() method

    The Dump() method should expose a parameter that adds ability to highlight texts that matches the parameter. This would help us quickly find something when dealing with a deeply nested or a very long list of objects that are dumped.

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  8. Add DatePicker control to LINQPad.Controls

    There is no DatePicker control available and there doesn't appear to be a HTML5 implementation of <input type="date"> which would automatically show a DatePicker on clicking in the field. I expect it could be done with JavaScript, but a control would be nice.

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  9. Please don't install a new update when I open LinqPad

    I regularly run LinqPad on clients' PC's in order to troubleshoot a database problem, rather than installing SQL Management. I don't like having an automatic update downloaded in the background onto their machine especially knowing that I will never use it anyway.

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  10. Add XML Documentation Helper

    Add a helper to the editor so that when /// is typed on the line before a property or method, the summary and param blocks are added similar to how it works in Visual Studio per this article:

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/reference/generate-xml-documentation-comments?view=vs-2017

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    Enable intellisense for /// < to template the common options:

    /// <summary
    /// <param
    /// <returns
    /// <see

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  11. Better suport for Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V in rich Text formatting

    Coping and Pasting the Result data to another application normally don't show results has expected.

    Like pasting to notepad the columns heads is pasted one per line and the data is pasts was separated by space.

    I would expected that the past data and the headers should be pasted separated by tab.

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  12. implement "collapse all" as right-click option on nodes in the connections/databases/queries views on the lefthand side of the main window.

    title says it all. I really really need this, as LINQPad becomes really really annoying to navigate after a while without this

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  13. add "new folder" context menu option for my queries

    Yes, we can add a new folder via save dialog but it will save time

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  14. Add quick filter box

    Add a quick filter box at the top of the My Queries and Samples list to easily filter by name - without having to go into "Go to...". Rename "Go to..." to "Advanced Filter"

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  15. Textbox input pane for c# / vb / f# program

    My suggestion is to add an optional expandable text input pane where any string could be written. This pane would be visible when choosing C# Program (or VB / F# Program) in the language drop down. The program template would then feature a Main(string arg) where the input would be fed.

    Many times I find myself pasting json, xml, csv, tsv data etc into the programming pane of linqpad. Afterwards I have to put the text into a string variable and replace quoute characters and other special chars to make it compile. Sometimes I instead write the text into a…

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  16. Drag-n-drop CSVs into an instant table

    Drag-n-drop a CSV file to the LINQPad window to silently create an IQueryable object populated with its values and insert a code reference at the cursor point where the drop operation completes.

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  17. PowerQuery Language Support

    PowerQuery is becoming very popular and would be very useful feature to have support inside LINQPad .

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  18. Bug: lprun stuck forever when the query has already finished

    The hang occurs when there is an unclosed external resource. The linqpad doesn't get stuck because it doesn't unload the application domain and therefore does not wait for the process to exit completely.

    There should be some sort of a timeout for the registration of the query exited event and the finilizers to finish their job. If they don't finish in a timely manner you need to kill the process forcefully.

    We were using https://github.com/sshnet/SSH.NET and didn't call .Exit() everywhere.

    This produces the hang of sorts:

    <Query Kind="Statements">
    <Reference Relative="..\..\SSH\Renci.SshNet.dll">C:\Users\User\Desktop\SSH\Renci.SshNet.dll</Reference>
    <Namespace>Renci.SshNet</Namespace>
    </Query>

    var sshClient = new SshClient("demo.wftpserver.com", 2222, "admin", "root");…

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  19. Allow changing font on IL tab

    It is possible to overwrite styles for HTML results on Preferences/Results/Style sheet. Unfortunately those overrides aren't used when IL tab is rendered. Please fix it. Thanks.

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  20. Allow LinqPad Query to access internal members of referenced libraries

    It would be great if LinqPad query can access internal members of referenced libraries without changing the referenced libraries to add InternalsVisibleTo attribute. Instead we could use the reverse attribute IgnoresAccessChecksToAttribute in the query to allow it to access internal members of any specified libraries. You can find detailed information on how this can be done here: https://github.com/aelij/IgnoresAccessChecksToGenerator and https://github.com/filipw/Strathweb.Samples.CSharp.NoVisibilityChecks

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