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  1. Make Nutshell database & log attachable under SS 2008 R2 (not the Express version)

    This would make it so much easier for those who have the non-Express version installed.

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  2. Add Delphi/Visual Pascal.

    Delphi/ Prism the .net version can you add to your list of supported languages.

    6 votes
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  3. Ability to store Variables

    Some kind of mechanism that stores the result of an expression into a variable or RAM storage... that can be used later on.

    Lets say i have a heavy Linq statement that spends 30 seconds to finish - it would be cool to store that data in a variable of some kind that i can call later on.

    "Live objects" might be the name of such...

    3 votes
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  4. c++

    Add c++ as one of the available languages. Perhaps this lies outside of the intended scope of LINQPad, but a lot of people use it as a snippet compiler, I know I do..

    43 votes
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  5. Donate your "Add Custom Assembly Reference" code to the next version of Visual Studio.

    They haven't gotten it right in over 10 years! In 2010 it got a little better. But they need your asynchronous search capability!

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  6. Add the GIST API to the script explorer

    Add some level of source control. I would like to have the gists API integrated directly into LINQpad. Because basically gists are scripts.

    http://developer.github.com/v3/gists/

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  7. Provide method to enable LinqPad.exe to swallow exceptions

    Can't safely call Write on the TextWriter provided by LinqPad's CreateXhtmlWriter when debugging. If any properties within the object being written throw an exception, the debugger catches this exception and writing ceases.

    The only workarounds are to 'Continue' after each exception (which is tedious if many are thrown), or to disable CLR exceptions and then re-enable them when done.

    It's not possible to have the object's properties not throw exceptions, as they are lazy loaded and will throw when certain fields are not initialised.

    3 votes
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  8. Highlight current line

    It would be nice to be able to show the current editor line with a different background colour. The standard tooltip colour would be fine but make it customisable if you really want :-)

    2 votes
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  9. Extension for bulk update/delete/insert queries

    One of the most missing features in linq. Allowing to bulk update/delete/insert rows (maybe as an extension lib like PredicateBuilder) would be absolutely awsome!
    Thanks

    52 votes
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  10. Add history (searchable) of executed statements/expressions.

    A list of previously executed statements and expressions is a useful addition to the My Queries pane or as a separate tab entry. It would be nice that this history can also be queried like the examples.

    13 votes
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  11. Create a portable version of the license

    I have the potential to work from multiple PC's It would be great if the license could be tied to a USB stick or something, this was i can add it to my portable apps collection.

    40 votes
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  12. NuGet Package Management

    Please consider NuGet integration.

    I would also suggest changing LINQPad scripts to not just be XML files but indeed something like a tar'd/zip'd archive of XML and DLL files with NuGet integration and update mechanism.

    This would be super compelling and useful and much more light-weight than using NuGet from VS.

    4 votes
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  13. Support plural table names => singular entity types

    When I have a "Customers" table, please support having "Customer" entities.

    At the moment, I have the "Customers"-table in the tree view with a "Customers" entity data type, which is bad.

    6 votes
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  14. ICustomTypeDescriptor

    Test for implementations of ICustomTypeDescriptor and use that interface to display results if it's implemented

    2 votes
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  15. add a data context for reading CSV files

    It's a very common problem to have to combine CSV files together. A data context that allowed you to add multiple CSV files and generate a static acessor off column names would be incredible useful

    12 votes
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  16. allow multiple data contexts per query

    I would like to be able to take data from multiple sources and munge them together, but right now only a single context is allowed. I guess you could do this with mega data context that references other data contexts.

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  17. .Dump support for DataSets, DataTables, etc.

    Like the title says add .Dump support for DataSets, DataTables, etc. ...all of the DataSet objects.

    3 votes
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  18. Copy to CSV or similar

    I can effectively do this using export to Excel and then select all / copy. But I do a lot of statistical analysis and need to copy data results to and from other programs. They support importing from the clipboard, but the clipboard text must be comma or tab separated (or even fixed--parsable in a line-per-row fashion--i.e., not markup).

    It would also be nice if you could suppress the summary line.

    9 votes
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  19. Add an option to set the default behavior for intellisense

    i.e. Always Show Full List (or press Ctrl+Space or Ctrl+H). Currently you MUST press those keys to get a full list. It would be nice to have an option to show the full list every time.

    6 votes
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  20. Tab Context menu options

    Similar to notepad++ add some context menu items for the tabs to include

    -> Copy full filepath to clipboard
    -> Copy filename to clipboard
    -> Copy DirectoryPath to clipboard

    14 votes
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