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  1. Please expand the find-replace tool to allow multiline find and replace text.

    Recently, I needed to combine lots of single row inserts SQL statements into multi-row insert statements, which involved removing the semi-colon at the end of each single insert, a commit, and the following insert statement up to the actual values of the insert, which spanned 5 text lines in the script I was writing. With a multiline find-replace tool this would be easy. With the find-replace tool only being able to operate on one line at a time this is much harder.

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  2. Please provide in-program and online Find-Replace tool documentation.

    The help menu item doesn't appear to give any help on how to use the program's find and replace tool. What are the wild-cards and regular expression features that the tool supports. Does it support beginning-line and ending anchors, multiline search patterns, etc.

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  3. The Visual Studio style 'Format Document' feature would be a useful addition to this great tool

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  4. Use Warning Icon (not Error icon) when searching for nugets from standard edition

    When searching for nugets from standard edition, a dialog is displayed saying you can only search for packages that contain linqpad samples.

    That dialog shows an error icon, not a warning icon, which seems like the wrong semantics (it's a warning of limited functionality, not an error that something doesn't work). It'd be good if the text started with 'Warning:' also.

    I know this looks like splitting hairs, but this just genuinely confused an end-user, who assumed my instructions were wrong.

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  5. samples

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  6. Copy/paste-able namespace and nuget references

    Copy/paste-able namespace and nuget references.

    I often copy/paste LINQPAD snippets between computers (over RDP), chats, OneNote etc. This works great if the snippet has default namespace and no nuget references. However, when it does, Copy/Paste takes a bit more work to re-setup namespaces.

    Would be great if LINQPAD had "Show namespace and nuget comment" option, or "Edit->Copy complete snippet", embedding the <Query> part of the script into comments. E.g.

    // #@kind Statements
    // #@ref <RuntimeDirectory>\System.Windows.Forms.dll
    // #@using System.Windows.Forms
    MessageBox.Show("Hello");

    Or just

    /* @#Linqpad
    <Query Kind="Statements">
    <Reference><RuntimeDirectory>\System.Windows.Forms.dll</Reference>
    <Reference><RuntimeDirectory>\System.Security.dll</Reference>
    <Reference><RuntimeDirectory>\System.Configuration.dll</Reference>
    <Reference><RuntimeDirectory>\Accessibility.dll</Reference>
    <Reference><RuntimeDirectory>\System.Deployment.dll</Reference>
    <Reference><RuntimeDirectory>\System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.dll</Reference>
    <Namespace>System.Windows.Forms</Namespace>
    </Query>*/
    MessageBox.Show("Hello");

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  7. customize search engine for F1 help

    When I use "Help on Current Type/Member", LINQPad harnesses Google to search for the specified information. Unfortunately, Google is currently blocked in my country. Can you add a feature to LINQPad so I can switch the search engine to Bing, Baidu, etc?

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  8. Allow option of NOT navigating to empty datagrid when collection contains 0 items - just show placeholder immediately.

    I love linqpad and find it more useful than SSMS for many operations. One feature that I would find AWESOME, would be to provide an option to NOT navigate to an empty results grid when there are no entries in the grid.

    Kind of like when you click on a Collection in an object Dump datagrid and the collection is Null, it just says null immediately. I would love it if when I clicked a navigation collection from a linq-to-sql (or any datagrid query), and there are no items in the target collection, it would just show 0 items (which…

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  9. Analyze SQL to allow option to open sql in editor of my choice

    Currently there are two options I can select

    1) Open as SQL Query in new tab
    2) Open in SQL Management Studio

    It would be nice to have it open in editor of my choice, eg Open in Toad or Open using PL/SQL developer, as these would give me option to further analyze the query.

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  10. have a place to input raw text as a connection

    I'd like to be able to run queries against a JSON structure (e.g. pull all the orders out > 24 hours old or show status of customers). Right now I take my json save it in a folder e.g. C:\inputdata.txt and then have an extension method in Linqpad that loads from that text file. it would be great if I could dump text into linqpad directly and reference it within my various queries

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  11. Memory leaks?

    I see reports from several years ago of memory leaks. I find I have to close LinqPad regularly because it consumes a lot of memory - I just killed a collection of LP processes, one of which was consuming over 2GB and another over 1.5GB and the total in use by LinqPad processes was over 8GB. It seemed to be holding onto processes for tabs I'd closed because there were only 4 tabs in which I'd executed queries, but there were 10 processes other than the main app process.

    When I restart LP (which I kill in Task Manager because…

    2 votes
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  12. Use Visual Studio Code as editor

    Hi,

    would be great if you could use Visual Studio Code as editor (IDE)

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  13. Add option to disable completely Instant Share

    Related to https://linqpad.uservoice.com/forums/18302-linqpad-feature-suggestions/suggestions/3613525-allow-users-to-disable-or-change-the-upload-to-ins#comments , please add an option (Preferences - Advanced) to disable this functionality completely. Disabling the shortcut is not good enough in some professional environments

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  14. To support big data , such as Apache Spark

    Big data is hot and is becoming popular. The most popular platform is Apache Spark.

    There is an ODBC driver of Apache Spark at http://www.simba.com/drivers/spark-jdbc-odbc/.

    Another option is that Microsoft has a library to access Apache Spark at https://github.com/Microsoft/SparkCLR .

    Maybe it is not difficulty to support.

    If so, LINQPad can have "big" effect and have more market.

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  15. Password protect production databases with timeout

    I would like a protection layer for production databases.
    It could be two factor push or simple password/pin.

    But something that allows me to have production databases without being afraid that i make a devestating mistake when not properly focused. Or that someone with bad intentions can wreck havoc.

    A simple password prompt on first access is enough and then a timeout after being inactive for a number of minutes.

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  16. BUG: LINQPad's lprun.exe -format:html outputs invalid html

    I have a script that I run that generates some html I need to display, however, the output is not valid (missing body and html minimally).

    I changed my script that I run to look like this:

    void Main( string[] args )
{
    "Hi".Dump();
    return;

    ... original code and Dump() and RawHtml calls...
}

    And this is the output I get is the following:

    <!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
    <meta name="Generator" content="LINQ to XML, baby!" />
    <style type='text/css'>
body {
    margin: 0.3em 0.3em 0.4em 0.4em;
    font-family: Verdana;
    font-size: 80%;
    background: white;
}

p,
    …
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  17. Display connection properties summary on mouse over

    I always rename connections so they have a meaningful names and I also use the create similar connection. Unfortunatly, this feature also copy the name and to figure out which of the two I should rename, having a tool-tip with the connection details would greatly help.

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  18. Use %appdata%\nuget\nuget.config for Nuget servers

    Visual Studio and command-line nuget share the set of configured nuget servers (it goes into %appdata%\nuget\nuget.config).

    It'd be nice if Linqpad honored this also, rather than having to (re)configure the nuget servers separately which is really boring.

    If keeping a separate list is seen to be desirable, what about an 'import from nuget.config' button to bring them in as a once-off?

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  19. Convention for auto-discovering internal nuget server(s)

    I'm deploying a tool to (technical) end users that uses linqpad as the UI. Before they can user it, we first have to tell them how to configure our internal nuget server.

    I'd be great if there was a simple convention for discovering local nuget server(s), so this didn't have to be done manually.

    I'm thinking of something a simple as - for domain-joined PCs - a probe to a server called 'nuget' (ie using the same DNS suffix), that just checks if it's responds validly using the nuget API. This could be a 'prompt on first install' action (or…

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  20. COBOL

    COBOL programming (relative and index file organizations think of the fun!) would be great - but I'll be surprised if it is implemented.
    The Idea being to make LinqPad into the first choice as an educational program tool.

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