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  1. I love this and would love for it to be accessible on my Android device.

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  2. Allow the user to drag and drop a file (perhaps XML) into the code and have its path added at the drop position. Curently if you Shift+Right click in File Explorer you can copy as path, but you end up with back slashes instead of forward ones. Just dragging a file in to query would be g

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  3. Tab Color should be easy to distinguish between the active one and the inactive ones

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  4. When running a query against an EntityFramework Typed DataContext connection, and the assembly folder path has a comma in it, linqpad shows System.IO.FileLoadException "The given assembly name or codebase was invalid". The context connection and tables show correctly on the left, but queries fail to execute.

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  5. At the moment it's possible to change the query lang via lprun using the -lang flag. It'd be awesome to be able to do the same when using Util.Run and Util.Compile/CompileAsync from other assemblies.

    It'd also be super useful to be able to pass a Stream to the same methods, but that's secondary :).

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  6. It would be nice if we could use regions in statement mode.

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  7. In SharpDevelop there is a useful tool which allows you to load a VB class and then convert it into C# (via Tools -> Convert Code to ...).

    It currently supports source code conversions between VB.NET and C# (and vice versa).

    Since SharpDevelop is Open Source, maybe it is not too difficult to add this feature to SharpDevelop?

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  8. I often use LinqPad as a text processor, where I have a method that returns a large set of data, for example:

    void Main()
    {
    GetWords().Dump();
    }

    // Define other methods and classes here
    private List<string> GetWords() {
    var list = new List<string>();
    list.Add("&c");
    list.Add("'d");
    list.Add("'em");

    // ... x 500 more lines

    return list;
    

    }

    In LinqPad4 this is fine. In LinqPad5, with the regular or "any CPU" install, this bogs down or becomes permanently unresponsive.

    Here is an example query, though I have experienced a slowdown in typing and intellisense with as few as 200 lines.

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/s3nfq1y3po90djy/High%20line%20count%202.linq?dl=0

    Again, works…

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  9. The following code dumps the initial state of the IObservable<Int64>, but does not refresh it as new elements are added:

    var i = Observable.Interval(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1));
    var w = i.Window(10);
    w.DumpLatest();

    As a workaround, adding the following line of code seems to fix the problem:

    w.Subscribe(wi => wi.DumpLatest());

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  10. It'd be so cool if we could output/publish Dump() traces to slack somehow.

    Sharing quick reports with my team would be amazingly simple.

    7 votes
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  11. When you generate a model for Linq to SQL, provide an option to not autoformat the property names with upper case first letters. Instead preserve the original field name and use that.

    Use case: I have several customers who use LINQ Pad for query prototyping and then copy the results from queries into their programs (I know, I know - not the best of ideas, but that's what they do). The problem is because the names don't match all sorts of fixups have to be done. An option to generate entity properties with the same casing as the underlying fields…

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  12. Type "string.jion". A popup will appear showing the members of string, with a dotted line around "Join". In Visual Studio if you press TAB it will accept it. In LINQPad it does not, and adds a tab instead. Thanks!

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  13. Sometimes you don't need to Dump() the entire object graph, but instead just a portion thereof. Of course, you can (if in Statements or Program mode) assign a variable, and them Dump() something derived from the variable currently. But wouldn't it be nice, for example if you could do this:

    /* some really complex query / .Dump(x => x.Select(y => y.EmailAddress, "Email Addresses")
    ./
    some other operations on the complex query */

    This wouldn't be hard to code:

    public static T Dump<T>(this T toDump, Func<T> filter, string description)
    {
    toDump.filter().Dump(description);
    return toDump;
    }

    Of course, you'd want to have other…

    3 votes
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  14. Support INotifyPropertyChanged in the same way as IObservable, i.e. update the value when the property changes

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  15. Many files will loaded from the folder containing the executable, resultstyles.css is not one of them.

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  16. I have two different solutions but with the same assembly name but different projects. One is a upgrade of the other. When i add another assembly if it is of the same name, it overwrites one that is already existent, even if their paths in explorer is different.

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  17. I really love the "Roslyn Syntax Tree" visualizer, and use it a lot to inspect how the code looks like a tree.

    However, I also do a lot with Roslyn, analyzing code, and writing code fixers. I'd really love it when I have a SyntaxNode, to be able to dump that to the Tree visualizer, and see it's tree there.

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  18. every time after CTRL-E,D formatting, moving current line to the top of the screen flickers the screen. I think it would be good to simply leave the screen as it is

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  19. I make many query then allow end user to use making report.
    I would like to hide script box to end user.
    End user just select script and run to see result.

    Also, I need to Load Win Form or WPF to replace same position of script box that let user select condition for query.

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  20. Allow us to configure the endpoint for Instant Share so we can create our own workflows for script sharing. Instant Share to a local folder, SMB share or Web API URL.

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