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  1. Make it possible to define aliases for the SQL results.

    When we create a Linq expression or whatnot, the SQL generated aliases our tables to "t0", "t1" - etc. There are many times it would be nice if the alias either maintained the variable we used in our query (table=> table.ColName) or allowed us to define aliases in some other, metadata file.

    Thanks!

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  2. Add grid editing for 3rd party drivers

    By this the driver for postgresql could use the grid for editing as well

    https://github.com/fknx/linqpad-postgresql-driver

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  3. Tree view for queries with groups

    In support of Tabs, it would be useful to have a treeview of queries, not saved ones but current ones, the current tab version is successful only to a point. I regularly have about 30 tabs up in a sequence of tests I run.
    Also the ability to name the queries in Tab view (but not save) would be a powerful thing.

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  4. Ability to compile using Roslyn Nuget packages

    For example, this one
    https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Net.Compilers/2.0.0-beta1

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  5. Show shortcuts in the My Queries pane

    Simulate more Win Explorer-like behavior in the My Queries pane with respect to folder shortcuts. If I add a shortcut to another folder location in the folder designated for my queries... I can click that folder shortcut to navigate to the folder containing to those queries. This would probably also necessitate some navigation buttons for the pane (back/forward).

    Now.. you may ask why not just store all my queries under a single folder. I am sure there are many reasons why one might wish to store their queries in various locations... but my main reason is that I keep some…

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  6. Make Nuget DependencyVersion property configurable

    If pulling a nuget package into a query, Linqpad seems to use -DependencyVersion Lowest. This works fine, if the package dependencies are maintained properly, but often it fails.

    If the public interface of the referenced package changes, but the package dependencies are not adjusted after an update, the package cannot be loaded in Linqpad.

    An example is the Splat dependency of the ReactuveUi package.

    It would be great to be able to set the DependencyVersion or update the referenced dlls.

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  7. Show Graph in Export and Allow to Copy

    very nice and simple reporting capabilities with show graph feature, please allow to export it into html at list or copy to clipboard

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  8. Util.RawHtml doesn't seem to monospace <pre> tags

    When I try to render some HTML that I get back from an FtpWebRequest call, dumping it to Util.RawHtml() gets me back a serif font output... the HTML actually has <pre> tagged content which should be monospaced, if I'm correct about how that gets rendered. When I run the same request via IE, I get exactly what I want.

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  9. Enable VM license on Parallels Desktop for Mac?

    Licensing page currently indicates "three activations for virtual machines running VMWare, MS Virtual PC, Hyper-V, Azure Roles, or Azure VMs".

    Would it be possible to add Parallels Desktop for Mac to this list? I'm a single user with a Premium license and I already use my desktop licenses on my three PCs. Nothing left to use on my Mac Win10 VM under Parallels. :(

    Thanks!

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  10. sort database names

    When I connect to a server which has a lot of databases (Azure in my case), it would be nice if the list of databases could be sorted alphanumerically in the connection window.

    It's possible this option exists, but I have yet to find it!

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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. The Visual Studio style 'Format Document' feature would be a useful addition to this great tool

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  14. 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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  15. samples

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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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