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  1. Add optional parameter to Util.Cmd that will accept a parameter so alternate success exit codes can be defined. Currently only 0 is acceptable as a success, but some apps use alternate exit codes.

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  2. When opening a connection across environments, it would be useful if a script could instead of introducing a new connection, it would first try to switch to and reuse any existing connection in LINQPad with the given name. Obviously this should be configurable if made into a feature.

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  3. There's a very nice feature that shows broken connections in the Connections panel. It would be nice to have something similar in the connection drop down.

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  4. Is it possible to localize the application (French, German, Spanish).

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  5. When adding a new item in the middle of, or deleting an item from the middle of the second list to compare using Util.Dif, the rest of the list is flagged as out of sync since it uses an index-based comparison. In other words, Util.Dif compares elements at index 0 with each other, then at 1 with each other, etc.

    It would be better if more advanced diffing algorithm was used to do this and could flag the entire element as red if it was removed, the entire element as green if it was added, or individual values with red/green…

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  6. It should be useful to rename the method to Util.SaveData and add a description to better explain what is the saved value, not only the key.

    And add an overload to save data linked with a LINQPad user to allow to have different values for the same key to export and import the passwords to other machines across the team.

    I've created a script to export/import the password using an encrypted .ZIP file.

    Thank you!

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  7. Create a web version of LINQPad, similar to jsFiddle or dotnetFiddle. linqFiddle would be an outstanding product and would be infinitely useful.

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  8. Please add an option for logging in to MS SQL Server with other user credentials than currently logged in windows user ("Windows authentication")

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  9. When you use Open in Excel on a grid, the Excel (html) file that is opened is named after the query name, but should be named after the Grid title from the Dump command that created the Grid, if one exists.

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  10. I put MyQueries on a network document drive to share on multiple servers and VMs. Unfortunately my company puts this on slow yet economical storage.

    For some reason this makes LinqPad's UI dreadfully slow. Can this be improved?

    I moved the scripts back to a local folder and it works fine but it would be nice to go back to the network folder.

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  11. Add commas (or whatever the user's localization number delimiter is) to the number of rows returned that is displayed in the status bar under the DataGrid. When the number is large, like 849054, it's easier to read it in groups as 849,054.

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  12. Support DB search (for SPs, functions, tables, columns), just like RedGate's SQL Search.

    Maybe it should be a context menu option (saying "Search for DB entity...") on the DB tree-node.

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  13. Can't add NETStandard.Library via nuget. Error: "There are no usable .NET assemblies in package 'NETStandard.Library'."

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  14. breakpoint bar is currently made visible only after the first breakpoint inclusion (via F9). Please make it visible at all times like in VS IDE.

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  15. Save All option (like Ctrl + A + S) to save changes in all opened query files.

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  16. I have placed my LinqPad folders inside a "OneDrive for Business"-folder (and made a junction to it in my documants folder :))

    But now Onedrive is complaining that I have a invalid character in "C# Snippets", which turnsout to be the # character.

    Can I rename that folder without losing the functionality?

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  17. This will let recently used queries float to the top of the list.

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  18. I would also like to add custom data presentation in the output panel (via Dumps).

    Becasue the output is rendered in HTML I would like to create a Plugin which will render JSON strings formatted with highlighting etc. for example.

    Or I would like to fetch some data from other Places and attach it to the dumped data etc.

    These plugins don't need to be a separate DLL. A Linpad script which implements a special interface would be enough.

    Best regards
    Christian

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  19. When I run queries, particularly as C# Programs that use the construct List<string> { ... }.Contains(q.fieldName), I very often get the message in the status bar "Error running query". Sometimes if I re-run the query a few times it will give me the results successful. Other times, it just reports this error every time. I need to know the actual error message to have much chance to fix it.

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  20. Add support to specify references in text.(May be like comment with references inside, or any other style)
    There are many very similar suggestions about references.
    Just combine them all into one and implement.
    My opinion: The simplest way with in comment description style is the best.

    Details:
    Just add support for parsing comments like
    /* ===Automation===
    AddReference: mycode.dll
    AddReference: somedll.dll
    */

    This looks like comment and could be freely copy-pasted. But also this is reminder to add such references for code testing. LinqPad could automate adding references by parsing this simple text.

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