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  1. Support TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE columns in Oracle

    Linqpad doesn't work very well if the underlying columns in an Oracle database contain TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE columns.

    These appear in the datacontext as DateTime (losing the offset information), however queries using equality checks against them can fail due to the way the underlying IQDriver handles (or otherwise) the conversion back to datetime offset within Oracle.

    It's a bit of a pain, but one of the simple approaches is to ensure the generated SQL wraps those columns in either sysextractutc(theColumn) or 'theColumn AT TIME ZONE xxxx' to ensure they are compared with the DateTime parameter that is…

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  2. Clearly show sorted column

    When clicking on a column heading in Results to Data Grids to sort by that column, it would be useful to see an arrow on the column heading to show that the data is sorted by this column, and in which order.

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  3. provide support for mongo db query

    i wanted to use linq over a mongo db database but i couldn't find any driver, i found one in codeplex which didn't work as suggested and it wasn't official. It would be really great if a official driver for mongo query is provided as a free feature

    51 votes
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  4. Teamcity

    We still use Powershell, mainly because there is a powershell runner in TeamCity. If there was a linqpad runner (not just calling out to lprun) then we could ditch powershell altogether!

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  5. Show a notification when a row or column has changed

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  6. Allow to debug my extensions and split them

    It should be useful to debug my extensions used in scripts because sometimes the code does not work. Another useful thing should be to allow to create more folders and files into, to create a more complex library of extensions.

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  7. Customizable hotkeys

    Ability to change hotkeys.

    3 votes
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  8. Support Fiddler Integration

    I often transition between a query generated in Fiddler and its results being parsed with LINQPad. This can be made much easier.

    4 votes
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  9. Provide a C# REPL mode

    The idea is that there would be a mode where it is easy to execute single lines or blocks of codes, and all the variables from the main scope would automatically be available in subsequent runs.

    The implementation is probably far from trivial, but one naive idea is to identify where variables are initialized and set, and have that mirrored as Get/SetData in the appdomain before compilation.

    So for instance, if I have the following lines

    var x = 1;
    var y = x + 1;

    Then running the first line would execute something like this

    var x = 1;…

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  10. Allow to set some lines to use Util.Cache

    Util.Cache is very useful when iteratively running the same code, but switching back and forth between
    var x = somecalculation
    and
    var x = Util.Cache(() => somecalculation,"x")
    can be a bitt painful

    It would be nice if one could set a given line to be "expensive", so that it appears as a simple line in LinqPad, but behind the scenes, that line is using Util.Cache.

    Alternatively, some directive could be put on that line as a comment by the user, to achieve the same result.

    The implementation should not be too tricky, just some regex to apply before compilation.

    The…

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  11. Any chance for a Mac version?

    It wold be great if it ran on the Mac natively. OTOH it works fine in Parallels. Thanks! And long time no see.

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  12. store results

    it is very cool to store results in a data sets or temp table to make secondary queries over it.

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  13. Improve grid editor in display and edit long length cell contents

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  14. Create Invoke-LinqPad Cmdlet for powershell

    Create Invoke-LinqPadQuery-Cmdlet for powershell: Instead of format the output as Text/Html write the objects given to "Dump" to the powershell pipe for further processing

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  15. Option Strict On

    Let the change to Option Strict On for scripts that use VB.NET to be more accessible. Instead of going to the preferences menu, an option like the Turn Optimizations ON/OFF would allow fast switch for testing purposes

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  16. A tutorial for IL

    I have recently started looking at the generated Intermediate Language and it makes a lot of stuff clear on why C#(in my case) behaves the way it does.
    It would be nice to have a tutorial about IL and how to interpret it along with some examples explaining the behaviour of certain operations.

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  17. Add claims based Authentication.

    I really need to use LinqPad to access our Microsoft CRM system, and we use OAuth to authenticate our users.

    15 votes
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  18. Object Browser

    Include a window that allows you to search through the assemblies (classes, methods and properties) like the object browser in Visual Studio

    6 votes
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  19. Add ablitity to refresh schema for individual table, not the entire connection

    Currently I can right-click on connection and pick Refresh to refresh schemas for all tables. I'd like to be able to do the same with individual table as with Azure driver refreshing schemas for all tables takes a very long time.

    3 votes
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  20. Online version of LINQPad

    Would you consider creating an online version of LINQPad? I'm learning LINQ and Rx and it would be nice to stay in the browser to try out the cool queries and examples I see online. .Net Fiddle does LINQ, but I'm sure it doesn't have the nice output options that LINQPad has.

    27 votes
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