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  1. 4 votes
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  3. When adding a Service Reference via Visual Studio, it generates a class for each Data Contract. Each of these classes have an additional property named ExtensionData, which always contains an ExtensionDataObject (usually empty).

    This creates a lot of noise when data returned by a WCF service using LINQPad's .Dump() extension method, due to the ExtensionData cells taking up most of the screen. In my opinion just like EntityState and EntityKey were hidden by default in LINQPad v4.37, so should ExtensionData properties be hidden by default.

    This would create a much more pleasent exprience for those using LINQPad with a WCF…

    8 votes
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  4. It would be great if you keep an history the last x (10,20,...) of the results (especially the html, but also SQL would be nice), including the time it took, and the date-time of the execution.

    It could be very useful when comparing the results (both output data and time it took).

    Many thanks!

    21 votes
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  5. Currently, latest release looks for fsc.exe in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft F#\v4.0\, but under VS 2012 on Win8, it's actually under C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\F#\3.0\Framework\v4.0\

    9 votes
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  6. If I change the background colour of the editor to black, it enables a dark theme, which on the whole is great.

    But if I use snippet replacements I can't read the replacement characters because the background colour is bright, light green and the foreground colour is white.

    E.g. type "prop" then tab. The word "foo" is unreadable. If I start typing to replace "object", that text also becomes unreadable.

    7 votes
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  7. We have 2 SQL servers set up with mirroring. Some databases are live on one and passive on the other and vice versa. It would be handy if I could put Failover Partner in the connection string to save me having to have 2 different connections.

    4 votes
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  8. Since LINQPad is an OData client, it be great if we could configure it to use the latests WCF Data Services libraries, which are now released out of band from the Framework. e.g. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29306 is a release that supports Any/All queries, but LINQPad will throw a NotSupported exception when using the exact syntax explained here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astoriateam/archive/2011/05/31/any-all-support-in-wcf-data-services.aspx

    2 votes
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  9. The yellow bar at the top shows the current exception but if you have a very long linqpad script you need to scroll down to see where the error happened. It would be nice to be able to click the yellow bar to jump down to the exception.

    1 vote
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  10. Having an access to data or implementing your own data provider, will make LinqPad an awesome tool for AutoCode Generation and Testing.
    I wrote my own MsSqlMetaData (Just and EF provider for system views, it's on NuGet) provider and currently generating a lot of code, but writing c# programs to generate code is not as easy as using text templates.

    27 votes
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  11. Just another export option or another mode/button near Output, Grid 1, λ, SQL, IL
    Would be really nice to have this possibility when I would need to copy some records from one DB to another via Remote Desktop connection

    20 votes
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  12. Obviously, features new to 1.7 (and later) will not be available as LinqPad seems to reference the 1.1 version. Also, I've been having this issue:

    Assembly 'MyAssembly, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' uses 'Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient, Version=1.7.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' which has a higher version than referenced assembly 'Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient, Version=1.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35'

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  13. LINQPad should be able to join results from two different database platforms in one Query.

    In our situation we would like to use it to join data stored in RavenDB with data stored in SQL Server. But I can imagine that there are many real life environments where one would like to join data in one database platform with data in another database platform

    6 votes
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  14. 4 votes
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  15. Support Oracle SQL tab!
    Debug the sql statement generated by EF with oracle,please!

    3 votes
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  16. It would be nice if hovering over the menu titles caused the menus to dropdown and show the items, rather than requiring a click action on the menu titles.

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  17. Currently, all the snippets provided as native LINQ statements and method calls only, irregardless of the nature of the connection/provider. It would be useful to have these snippets in all languages supported by LINPad and (more importantly) applicable to the specific connection/provider, like for instance ESQL or plain SQL. The snippets could be organized in sub-menus by language.

    2 votes
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  18. If one has derived entity types defined in the model and doesn’t use MEST (default scenario), the derived entities are not shown in the schema tree, since only entity sets defined in the model are currently shown. Per default it means only base entity types. It makes model exploration capability very limited. Consider a model where all the entities derive from a single base type MyObject (arguable but viable design). Then you end up with only one “table” entry MyObjects in the schema tree with few to none properties defined. All the hundreds of “real” types with all their valuable…

    9 votes
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  19. I have a odata URI. I need a translation of it in Linq using linqpad. Is it possible?

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  20. The amount of duplicate SQL Parameters are too damn high :-)

    eventhough i in C# declare the inputs as variables, the SQL parameters are duplicated pr use of the paramenter.

    eg:
    var DS = 127;
    var genart = "00402";
    var critno = 100;

    becomes :
    -- Region Parameters
    DECLARE @p0 Int SET @p0 = 100
    DECLARE @p1 VarChar(1000) SET @p1 = '00402'
    DECLARE @p2 NVarChar(1000) SET @p2 = '-1'
    DECLARE @p3 Int SET @p3 = 100
    DECLARE @p4 Int SET @p4 = 2
    DECLARE @p5 VarChar(1000) SET @p5 = '00402'
    DECLARE @p6 NVarChar(1000) SET @p6 = '-1'
    DECLARE @p7 Int…

    4 votes
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