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  1. Every time I add a new connection I uncheck the "Pluralize EntitySet and Table properties" and "Capitalize property names" check boxes. I would love it if there was a way to specify a set of default values for the connection.

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  2. Due to the nature of Linqpad, I'm often using it for handling one-off processes or experimenting. It would be nice to be able to quickly step through all the saved states of a particular snippet, etc. Could marry with an advanced Undo system.

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  3. I run queries from time to time, and every time I open a query, i need to adjust the height of Results Panel. It would be very helpful to save the layout for each query. So LINQPad could be used a workspace.

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  4. Include an option so that the new 'new tab' button can operate like ctrl+shift+N rather than ctrl+N.

    More oftent than not I will have multiple tabs open on the same DB

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  5. User entering CTRL-E should execute a query justlike F5 does. I am in the habit of that keyboard combo from old queryanalyzer days

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  6. It would be great if LINQPad could create classes from a JSON object in the clipboard (Just like the WebEssentials extension for VisualStudio can do)

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  7. When prototyping idea's I find the C# expression really useful but it would be even better if I could write more than one without having to call dump myself as per c# statements.

    Linqpad could take each line as an expression and evaluate & dump them 1 at a time

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  8. I have been using LINQPad to deploy a few large strings directly into a database table, but I recently needed to get the full script of what was being generated so I could deploy in an environment without LINQPad. When I opened the SQL output pane, the declaration which held the variable containing my 9 KB string was limited to the first 1,000 characters. Is there somewhere I can configure LINQPad so it will not truncate the SQL output as shown below?

    -- Region Parameters
    DECLARE @p0 VarChar(1000) = 'CNV'
    DECLARE @p1 NVarChar(1) = N'declare @interfaceId int = 70;

    ...…

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  9. Rather than editing the stylesheet in the preferences editor, it would be nice to load that from a file.

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  10. I have an object whose ToString() implementation returns null in some instances. I noticed that when Dump() attempts to dump this object, it throws a nullref.

    I have modified my code to no longer return null from the ToString(), but it ought to be trivial to update LinqPad to avoid this issue in the future.

    Sample:
    void Main()
    {
    new Bar().Dump(1);
    }

    // Define other methods and classes here
    public class Bar
    {
    public override string ToString()
    {
    return null;
    }
    }

    6 votes
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  11. be able to set a breakpoint in VS, and be able to transfer a collection that was created into the linqpad workspace. Quite often a collection is created after doing quite a bit of work in the way of web service calls, db queries etc... once all of this info has been gathered together in a collection in a running program, it would be awesome to then query that collection at a VS breakpoint.

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  12. We are using the IQ "driver" to connect to an Oracle database. When expanding a table, the list of columns in the table is displayed. It would be a huge help if this list could be sorted. We have several tables each with over a 100 columns and it becomes very difficult to find the column we're looking for.

    We'd liek to see an option (perhaps in Preferences) that allows us to see the list of columns sorted alphabetically (or reverse alphabetically).

    Thanks

    4 votes
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  13. Please add the ability to generate a StoredProc or Func from linqToSql. This would be an awesome benefit for devs who hate working with TSQL.

    Many Thanks

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  14. be able to query a net.tcp hosted service

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  15. 4 votes
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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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\

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  20. 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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