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  1. The menu item for "Copy for Markdown/Stack Overflow" ends up copying code that in most cases won't compile without manual intervention by the person who grabs it off of Stack Overflow.

    Specifically, these two things is on the query options tab, and has to be manually added for the query code to compile and execute:

    • References
    • Using directives

    It would be nice if those two things could be copied alongside the query code, for instance as specially crafted comments at the top, that would be recognized by LINQPad upon pasting back into it, and moved to the appropriate places.

    ie.

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  3. It would be good if we could enter intermediate language and execute it.

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  4. Right now im writing a series of Linq2SQL / Entity statements.

    When pressing F5 the total amount of executiontime is shown in the statusbar...

    What would be cool, would be to extend the result browser to display execution statistics

    eg: every grid could have a row underneath that tells the following:
    Started 700 msec - Ended 1000 msec - Execution time: 300 msec

    this would be very usefull when optimizing queries

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  5. When storing .LINQ files in source control, running them on multiple machines end up checking in minor changes very often, due to the absolute path of relative references also being stored, like this:

    <Reference Relative="..\..\MDA.Cards\bin\Debug\MDA.Cards.dll">D:\dev\VS.NET\MtGDeckAnalyzer\MDA.Cards\bin\Debug\MDA.Cards.dll</Reference>

    I suggest you don't store the absolute path when you also got the Relative attribute, so that the programs only change when you actually make a change, and not change because you happen to run them on a computer with a different path setup.

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  6. If you could (for example) use Util.CurrentQuery.SaveVariable('currentCustomerId', 10) to save a background-variable, so that I can use Util.CurrentQuery.LoadVariable<int>('currentCustomerId') in my query to continue where I left off.

    Right now I have solved this by making my own functions in "My Extensions" to handle this.

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  7. Instead of running your application pressing the CRTL-G shortcut ought to be the goto line command as it is in Visual Studio. A dialog would open accepting an integer input of the line number to move the cursor to. This shortcut is useful and saves quite a few keystrokes when navigating around code.

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  8. Quite often those totals make no sense and confuse users when exported.
    BTW, thanx for the linqpad!

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  9. It would be cool to be able to search within stored procedures and tables (column name, table name, etc) for a string. Here is a tool that does it for SQL Management Studio.

    http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-search/

    This is the only feature that still forces me to use Management Studio.

    Also, LINQPAd is the greatest thing ever!

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  10. I love how setting the background to a dark color in LinqPad just works. But when I copy and paste code from LinqPad to Outlook, Word, etc., the result is unreadable. I have to change the background back to white to copy then change it back to black. It would be nice if the default color scheme (white background) was used when copying text from the editor to clipboard.

    (I have noticed that the same is not true for the results window. I have changed my results to use a dark background and other colors, but when copying the results…

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  11. Hi,
    In order to paste results in Gmail:
    Or 1. Export to excel and attach.
    Or 2. Export to Word, copy (as RTF), then paste in Gmail.

    Sometimes I just want to paste some small results to Gmail. It would be awesome if you let to copy the result in RTF (even by loosing some of the formatting).

    Thanks!

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  12. I'd like linqpad to save all open queries when closed. Similar to how it recovers unsaved queries after crashing. If I've changed 'Named' queries it would prompt to save changes, but unnamed queries are just saved without a dialog.

    I often have numerous ad-hoc queries I've written over the course of a day and are specific to what ever issue is the daily crisis.

    Also auto language detection would be nice as well; C# Vb ect.

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  13. Having the possibility to do a massive modification on connections (ie : modify the dll containing the EDMx file path or change server address on many connections in one hit)

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  14. In the settings of the normal LINQPad instant I run, I have set up special folder for queries, plugins, and snippets, in order to synchronize them using Dropbox.

    However, I also use LINQPad on the build machine, so I have checked in a copy of LINQPad with its own local Queries folder.

    If I create a local Plugins folder, and then try to use the "My Extensions" script in LINQPad, when running the build machine LINQPad instance (still on my own machine though), it still uses the global settings for picking up My Extensions.

    I'd like to have a local…

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  15. I'm used to hitting Ctrl+H to bring up the Find + Replace dialogue in tools which have separate Find and Replace dialogues. In LinqPad, the Replace functionality is obviously covered by the Find dialogue (Ctrl+F), but hitting Ctrl+H does nothing. I find this interrupts my habits established by other software. I have "use Visual Studio shortcuts" turned on, so I would like Ctrl+H to also display the Find/Replace tools, same as it does in VS 2012.

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  16. The namespace import smart tag works great, but if you are accessing an extension method that it won't offer any suggestions.

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  17. Would be great if instead of opening like so in SSMS:

    Executed Sql Query:
    Query: SELECT ... AND ( [LPA_L3].[SomeColumn] = @p1)
    Parameter: @p1 : Guid. Length: 0. Precision: 0. Scale: 0. Direction: Input. Value: 52d87c12-e610-43f8-bdc1-7aee15b19a78

    It commented out comments and set variable values
    --Parameter: @p1 : Guid. Length: 0. Precision: 0. Scale: 0. Direction: Input. Value: 52d87c12-e610-43f8-bdc1-7aee15b19a78
    SET @p1 = '52d87c12-e610-43f8-bdc1-7aee15b19a78';

    --Executed Sql Query:
    -- Query:
    SELECT ... AND ( [LPA_L3].[SomeColumn] = @p1)

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  18. Sometimes a table might have a couple columns at most that are for viewing, the others are foreign keys. It would be nice to hide those if I don't use the hyperlinks.

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  19. Create a .Net component version of this program. To use with asp.net and winform apps.

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  20. The LINQPad Activations webpage[0] should display the `Date Activated' in the clients' locale.

    [0] https://www.linqpad.net/licensing/ListActivations.aspx

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