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  1. Util.Dif should handle list inserts and deletions better (but not sure exactly how)

    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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  2. Improve Util.GetPassword to manage local passwords and other data

    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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  3. Create LINQPad for the Web

    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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  4. Allow login with windows authentication with other user credentials

    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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  5. Set Open In Excel name to Grid Title from Dump

    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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  6. Improve UI and Intellisense Performance - MyQueries on Slow Network Folder / Share

    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.

    4 votes
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  7. Add commas to the row count of results

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

    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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  9. support for NETStandard.Library 2.0

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

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  10. have breakpoint visible by default

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

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

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  12. Snippets

    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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  13. Add option to sort the My Queries pane by date

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

    3 votes
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  14. Plugin Support for Dumps

    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

    6 votes
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  15. report specifics about errors that occur when running a query

    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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  16. references

    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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  17. Specify executable option to open exporting spreadsheet file in another program

    Features 'Open in Excel', 'Open selected cells in excel', 'Export to Excel', 'Export to Excel Without Formatting' are awesome, however found that it would be really great to have ability use another spreadsheets processor for exported files opening.
    Would like to ask add additional field into Preferences/Advanced/Output section(for example 'Path to spreadsheet executable') that would be used for mentioned before features and filled during installation by installed excel executable path

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  18. Connect to cosmosdb

    It would be nice to be able to connect to and query CosmosDb using the Linq to DocumentDb SQL API

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  19. Create a setting for the specific version of FSharp tools and libraries to use for each Query

    I have been trying to use FSLab (F# data science tools) in the latest version of LinqPad. It seems that LP is using a very old version of FSharp.Core.dll (v4.3.0.0). The assemblies in the latest version of FSLab look to have been built again F# 4.0, with FSharp.Core.dll version 4.3.1.0. This creates all sorts of version issues because LP seems to be explicitly loading 4.3.0.0; specifically miss method exceptions. It would be great if you could add a setting to specify the version of the F# tools and libraries to use. It would make LP a much more useful tool…

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  20. .Net notebook/workbook

    R/Python/F# all have REPL environments that allow creation of live scripted Jupyter notebooks.

    LinqPad has the ability to become this for the .Net world.

    Some features that would allow this:

    Xamarin has a concept of workbooks already

    https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/workbooks/install/

    TensorFlow demo example for this notebook here

    https://github.com/larcai/cognibooks/tree/master/tensorflow

    Leverage LinqPads scripting environment to be the .Net Data Science Notebook of the future!

    56 votes
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