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  1. It will be very useful, if output pane can be easily switched between decimal and hex notations (when testing ciphering or protocol algorithms, decimal notation is pretty useless). And how about Dump() extension optional formatting specifiers?

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  2. Many times I am unable to execute operations on a remote machine and also I need to execute a set of operations on machine which is in another domain. In that case it would be nice If I can impersonate linqpad to use a different credential.
    Few suggestions
    1. Add Util.Runs (username, password)
    2. Store a list of users with linqpad like connections so that the user credentials are encrypted and can be just called as
    Util.Runas("refer User connection Name");

    7 votes
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  3. I'd created an idea for LINQPad to offer a REPL experience already (since I can't use language features like LINQ comprehension syntax or the like from PowerShell scripts), but now that Roslyn CTP is out and csx / C# script is alive, I'm hoping that the effort required would be much lower in LINQPad to offer a REPL. If it only works when Roslyn is installed, then that's fine with me, and it helps bridge the functionality gap for those of us that love LINQPad but want to use it as a REPL so we can keep results/objects/graphs in memory…

    73 votes
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  4. 6 votes
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  5. I would like an option to auto-include the indentation of first line for copy-paste convenience,

    I find when I copy-paste pieces of code around, I place the cursor usually at the starting word. Then I would hold the shift key to select the lines below. This results in excluding indentation characters of the first line, but including the indentation for the lower lines.

    When you then paste this block, you would place the cursor at the correct position, but the lines under that appear 'one level too deep'.

    I could work around it, by adjusting my selection to include the…

    4 votes
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  6. By default it would only ever create a single results tab and replace the results in that tab every time you ran the query.

    However, if you pinned that tab, the next time you ran the query it would instead create a new tab and leave the old one untouched. This would allow users to work on a query and easily compare the outputs of different versions of that query.

    A nice bonus would be a link that lets you retrieve the code that produced a particular tab's results.

    5 votes
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  7. It would be great to be able to run profilers from LINQPad without creating a new VS project to get an exe for anything that i'd want to profile. This goes toward the "Pad" part more than the LINQ part of this program.

    5 votes
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  8. A common SQL Azure connection failure is when you are running behind a proxy/firewall. At my office I cannot connect to SQL Azure without turning on the trust server certificate setting in the connection string. Linqpad doesn't expose this right now.

    Exposing the ability to set the TrustServerCertificate=true in the ConnectionStringBuilder would allow this connection to succeed.

    6 votes
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  9. vb 2010 does not require the "_" when a new line starts with a query clause. It would be nice if you didn't either.

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  10. I have a lot of queries I use day to day. I have recently started using SubmitChanges to update data when needed. I have this line commented out by default but worry that sometimes I could forget. Would be nice to have an option to that when enabled asks for confirmation to perform SubmitChanges()

    3 votes
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  11. I live in sweden and swedish Exception message are quite useless when posting online (in help formus) etc. Would be greate to set the CultureInfo so Linqpad returns English exception messages.

    4 votes
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  12. Some parts of the VB 'language' are actually implemented within the Microsoft.VisualBasic assembly, which is normally referenced by default by VB projects. eg IIF

    Linqpad doesn't add this reference and import when a VB query is created, and so valid VB will fail in Linqpad until the reference is added. This is either confusing or irritating, depending on who you are.

    Suggest adding the reference and the import by default to avoid confusing novices and/or annoying anyone else unlucky enough to have to be prototyping a quick VB function here and there.

    7 votes
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  13. 4 votes
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  14. 1 vote
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  15. Hi,

    In the left panel which holds all the connection a new menu items should be added -- expand / collapse all below this node. While creating SQL queries I often forget which tables has which fields, and I have to manually expand the nodes (root > db > user > table). It takes a time. With my suggestion user will be able to perform this action in 2 clicks.

    Thanks

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  16. 3 votes
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  17. It would be nice to be able to load, query and update xml files.

    9 votes
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  18. Like this:

    reference @"..\Lib\SomeAssembly.dll";

    using SomeAssemblyNamespace;

    ClassInSomeAssemblyNamespace.SomeStaticMethod();

    or maybe to remain true to the C# standard, use custom attributes:

    [reference(@"..\Lib\SomeAssembly.dll")]
    [using("SomeAssemblyNamespace")]

    ClassInSomeAssemblyNamespace.SomeStaticMethod();

    6 votes
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  19. I often times need to just view the newly created data recently. If this command can be added to the right click on the table menu will be excellent!

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  20. I use ManicTime to track my day and it keeps a list of the current active window and the title of that window. For Linqpad, that's just "Linqpad". It would help with time tracking if the document that had current focus would show up in the title of the window.

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