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  1. 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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  3. 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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  4. Ability to change hotkeys.

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

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  6. 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;

    6 votes
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  7. 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…

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

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  9. 7 votes
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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. Include a window that allows you to search through the assemblies (classes, methods and properties) like the object browser in Visual Studio

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  15. 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.

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  16. 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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  17. It would be nice to be able to test PowerShell From LINQPad, currently I have to use PowerGUI for testing Powershell Script.

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  18. I have LinqPad pinned for easy access but every time LinqPad is upgraded the pinned version points to the old file and I have to remove that one and re pin the new version.

    Not a big problem but a little annoying ;)

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  19. When viewing some complex data structures, it would be very useful to be able to re-dump particular parts of the structure. I.e., either by right clicking a cell or by using the > arrow that brings up the menu with 'View in grid', I'd like to be able to dump that particular element.

    3 votes
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  20. 21 votes
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