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  1. Airtable and Linqpad is my two favorite tools. Please arrange a marriage so I can use Airtable in Linqpad as easy as it's connect to other datasources.

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  2. LINGQPad could be a perfect tool for Unity game development. Not so much the free version but the debugger capabilities gives people an edge with development aswell faster learning capabilities.

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  3. I would love to be able to add a reference to a LINQPad script similar to how you would add a project reference in Visual Studio. This would be like the My Extensions script, but rather than global, it would be a selective inclusion.

    Main() would not be called, but any types/methods would be available in the referencing script.

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  4. Seems like it would be handy to have a way to search the datagrid contents.

    You can use ctrl-f in the standard results but that doesn't appear to work when viewing datagrids.

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  5. In Chart() method, we can plot additional Y series by:

    chart.AddYSeries(x => x.Value2, LINQPad.Util.SeriesType.Line, "Value 2");

    and a legend is shown with specified name ("Value 2" in above code).

    It's cool feature, but I couldn't find the way to specify the name for "default" Y series.

    So I think "name" parameter may be needed in Chart() method.

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  6. SQL 2016 supports built-in function STRING_SPLIT().
    This function corresponds to .net [String].Split(char).
    Please enable mapping from C# to SQL when calling .Split() on a string.

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  7. Why is this option not disabled yet? I am being asked to not use LinqPad any longer in my day to day workflow because someone accidentally shared something to Instant Share.

    We need to be able to:
    a) disable the menu item so that it cannot be accidentally clicked (or even seen)
    b) disable the hot key combo so that it cannot be accidentally hit
    c) manage the scripts that have been uploaded on our behalf so that we can delete any sensitive scripts.

    Scripts should not be automatically made publicly accessible without warning and should certainly not be left…

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  8. Would be nice to be able to use JsonObject properties to query data inside LINQPad.

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  9. e.g. with the signature "T Dump<T>(Func<T, object> whatToDump)"

    This can then be used to dump a particular part of an object: "person.Dump(p => p.Name)", but the original value is still the result.

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  10. 1 vote
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  11. Exit insert mode when autocomplete pop-up is visible. Currently, escape just exits the pop-up and not insert mode.

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  12. It would be nice to have comment slashes (//) prepended to the first non-whitespace character of a line rather than the beginning of the line.

    Example

    Current functionality - Before using the comment shortcut:
    void Main()
    {
    \s\s\s\sConsole.WriteLine();
    }

    Current functionality - After using the comment shortcut:
    void Main()
    {
    //\s\s\s\sConsole.WriteLine();
    }

    Desired functionality - After using the comment shortcut:
    void Main()
    {
    \s\s\s\s//Console.WriteLine();
    }

    • Sorry for the awkward 'regex'-like values representing a space. This wasn't posting with all the spaces.
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  13. Our Dev and QA servers have at least a hundred databases on each server instance. It would be great if there was a "Quick Select" for databases similar to the "Navigate to Query" ctrl+, window. I know there is the drop down at the top, but it is not a searchable drop down.

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  14. I recently write a web crawler which fetches data from website and store into the database. Since I have already had some same kind of data in the database, I have to use linq to detect whether or not the data fetched from website has already been in the database. Here comes the problem: every times the compiler runs into the Linq expression against the database table, it seems like it generates a new instance of the database, and not disposing it after leaving the brackets. Thus the query at some point would ran out of the memory. I rewrite…

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  15. DumpContainer is cool, but it's not convenient to new a DumpContainer() and set the Content.
    Please support Dump(string containerName).

    Like this:

    public static class DumpExtensions
    {
    public static Dictionary<string, DumpContainer> dict = new Dictionary<string, LINQPad.DumpContainer> { };

    public static T Dump<T>(this T obj, string description, string containerName)
    {
        if (!dict.ContainsKey(containerName))
        {
            dict[containerName] = new DumpContainer().Dump();
        }
        dict[containerName].Content = obj;
        return obj;
    }
    

    }

    // Then I can simplely print 1-100 in 5 containers

    void Main()
    {
    DumpExtensions.dict.Clear();
    for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
    {
    i.Dump("", (i%5).ToString());
    System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(100);
    }
    }

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  16. Any of the following key combinations will exit insert mode: Escape, Shift+Enter, Ctrl+Enter. Typing 'kj' quickly will also exit insert mode if you enable that option in Preferences.

    Ctrl+[ is a common alternative to escape in vim. A lot of vim users do not use the Esc key directly as it means taking your hand of the home row. Specially if you have Caps lock mapped to Ctrl. It would be nice to have it as an option.

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  17. Currently in the beta charting works really nice, except it is not possible to add an extra XY set, only a Y set can be added using .AddYSeries.

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  18. Currently in the beta charting works really nice, except it is not possible to add an extra XY set, only a Y set can be added using .AddYSeries.

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  19. Please add support for https://codestats.net

    Thank you.

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  20. I'd like to be able to configure the transparency of the CTRL key when the Intellisense window pops up.

    The problem I have is, I use Emacs key bindings and CTRL+N and CTRL+P interfere with my UP/DOWN navigation scrolling through the Intellisense list. It's annoying trying to move up and down and the pop up keeps fading to transparent.

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