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  1. Consider adding another toolbar item for the Cancel All Threads and Reset (Ctrl+Shift+F5) menu option to the query toolbar. Hidden in the menu, it wasn't obvious that this existed, or what it was for. I've been closing LinqPad and re-launching regularly because I didn't realize this option existed.

    User error? Yes. But a toolbar button would be helpful for others like me.

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  2. Keep results window exclusive to each tab so that various tab results can be compared or referenced when needed. Let's say I want to see the results of a query as a reference to other query I'm working on another tab, the result window goes blank as it is linked to the current query which is blank since not executed yet. But I still want to see the previous query results that I detached earlier.

    May be an option to PIN/LOCK the results window to the query tab exclusively so that other tab's execution results will create a new results…

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  3. I've never yet wanted to export my results to my queries directory (or whereever it defaults to now). I don't get the current behaviour ... do people actually want this ?

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  4. When I query and get Data Grid results back, the columns always come out fairly narrow. I have to then click on each column to read it. The Data Grid controller allows you to expand all columns so that all data is visible in each. This would be helpful to have

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  5. It's great we can control where braces go (on their own lines of course), but needs option for spaces inside non-empty parentheses etc. Auto-formatting is awesome (and I don't want to turn it off), but removing my spaces is just rude :)

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  6. Show a waiting icon in the "Go To..."(Navigate To Query)" popup window during long query text searches

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  7. Open New Query Tab When Pressing Middle Mouse Button on the Tabs Bar Like Firefox or Chrome.

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  8. Since VB is case-insensitive, all its keywords can be lowercase without affecting compilation. In Linqpad4, I use to type all my VB code in lowercase (it's somehow much more readable). Now with LP5, I get code completion and other nice stuff, but all my nice lowercase code gets put back in normal VB style. If it's not too much work, a "Lowercase VB keywords" option would be great.

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  9. Add to DumpLatest option similar to what 'watch' command does with flag '--differences'.

    This would allow nice&easy visual monitoring of changes in any data.
    I use for example code like this to visually monitor changes in DB:
    Observable.Interval( System.TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2) )
    .Select(x => this.GetSomeDBTable )
    .DumpLatest();

    Having any changes in dump output highlighted with for example yellow background would be nice.

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  10. I'm usually looking for the last time I used the thing I'm looking for. I'd like to be able to sort the found files in reverse date order.

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  11. I want to suggest LINQPad can utilize SignalR to output results into browsers. That will useful for multiple monitor users.

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  12. I have a script that produces an array of dynamic objects whose properties are all identical. It would be nice to have the output formatted as a single table whose columns are the properties of the dynamic objects rather than a table with a single column, Items, with links in each row to the Key/Value pairs.

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  13. When dragging column name from connection box into a SQL statement, don't highlight it. just put the cursor at the end + 1 space.

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  14. I would love to see the the "Find what" and "Replace with" text boxes turned into combo boxes that drop down to show recently used values. It would be particularly helpful when performing non-trivial regex searches.

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  15. I would like to be able to create a "My Extensions"-like file per folder so that I can create contexts or extension code that are shared by all of the queries in that folder.

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  16. I have been playing with scriptcs and csx files. It would be awesome if LinqPad could edit and debug csx files just like linq ones. With Roslyn being the future, seems like it would be an important feature for LinqPad (which is awesome!! by the way)

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  17. I have a back end DB for an ERP system which has thousands of tables but all the relations between those tables are serviced by ERP itself.
    When I need to write a query to that DB I have to make all the joins explicitly, which makes query ugly and must be repeated in each query. I cannot touch the DB itself - it is governed by ERP, but if I could specify relations between tables on LinqPad side, then I could use full power of Linq queries every time. The relations should be addable ad hoc, one at a…

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  18. When using Rx, I wish I was able to call OnNext on subjects as needed once the query has being compiled and is running.

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  19. I frequently use a DataContext imported from a external dll, instead of the autogenerated one (for many reasons inclusing this: http://linqpad.uservoice.com/forums/18302-linqpad-feature-suggestions/suggestions/8116665-let-the-autogenerated-datacontext-table-classes-us ) but this means that there's no "edit data" when viewing dumps. Is there any good reason why "edit data" shouldn't be available for external datacontexts ?

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  20. When using Visual Studio to generate a DataContext, the table classes use properties for the columns. When LINQPad does it, it uses fields, not properties. This is bad, because it creates a (too) subtle difference between the 2 tools. Code that works in one, may not work in the other.

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