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

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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.

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  9. 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.

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  10. Adding PowerShell support

    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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  11. When upgrading, would it be possible for linqPad to stay pinned to the startbar

    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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  12. Add 'Dump' to 'View in grid' menu and to IEnumerable elements

    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.

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  13. For debugging, step into and step over buttons shuld be on the toolbar

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  14. Implement a driver based on the famous dapper library from Stackoverflow

    Implement a driver based on the famous dapper library from Stackoverflow. Dapper is faster than Linq2SQL or EF. It'd great to take advantage of it in LINQpad.

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  15. Add memory used, CPU time, and compile time. (Like dotnetfiddle)

    Something like this here: https://dotnetfiddle.net/

    Should just take a few seconds to add it to the status bar.
    Say, Peak memory, Average memory and CPU user, and kernel time, for a start.

    And perhaps even a detailed heap views separately later on. Could be very useful to actual understanding the efficiency of the quick snippets in LINQPad first, that make it into projects only later :)

    4 votes
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  16. A keyboard shortcut for Dump() method.

    I hate typing Dump with proper casing all the time. Linqpad increases developer efficiency for sure. I think a tool specifically designed to make a developer's life easier, CANNOT afford not to have a keyboard shortcut for a frequently used feature. One of them of Dump(). The shortcut should be context sensitive, it should when to add semicolon and when not to.

    5 votes
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  17. MyExtensions folder (multiple queries). Alternatively: support query to query reference.

    LINQPad is growing within my organization.Domain experts are becoming seasoned programmers. However, several projects have started getting very large communal "MyExtensions". This is facing the normal problem of readability, volatility/stability, concurrent work and versioning. It is also an opportunity lost to teach good separation of concerns.

    It would be very helpful (and educational) if MyExtensions could be separated into several files, each of which would be "C# program" and concatenated (minus the main() method) in the pre-build step.

    Alternatively, it would be even better if a query could reference another query in the same fashion that all queries now refers…

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  18. Support disabling code folding

    Code folding is neat and all, but to some users it is just an annoyance. Please allow us to disable it.

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  19. Dump() method. Show type of empty arrays.

    Normally Dump() will show the type and length of an array, as well as it's contents. However, empty arrays are shown as "(0 items)", it would be good too see that the object is indeed an array of a specific type.

    So e.g. if I do:

    ====
    var fields = "".Split(',')

    fields.Dump();

    We see:

    String[] (0 items)

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  20. Update IQ provider to support the latest version of SQLite

    Currently the IQ provider ships with SQLite 3.7.17. This means we can't use the latest SQLite features, such as the WITH clause (introduced in 3.8.3)

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