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  1. 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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  2. 4 votes
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  4. 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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  5. 3 votes
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  6. It would be nice to be able to load, query and update xml files.

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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. There are so many requests for adding language x or language y. I started two of them requesting support for IronRuby/ IronPython
    http://linqpad.uservoice.com/forums/18302-linqpad-feature-suggestions/suggestions/359780-ironpython-ironruby-support-would-be-nice-

    and Boo http://linqpad.uservoice.com/forums/18302-linqpad-feature-suggestions/suggestions/359783-boo-support-would-be-nice

    There are request for hosting Powershell, adding Delphi/Prism.

    Why not add IronJS, Phalanger (for PHP), Nemerle, IronScheme or any other language.

    How about switching the editor to the AvalonEdit of SharpDevelop for creating your own syntax highlighting and Code Completion.

    51 votes
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  11. Since hitting Esc doesn't seem to trigger any other action, it would be useful for those of us with muscle memory to hit it when we accidentally ran something we shouldn't have. Much faster/simpler than the 2-key combo of Shift-F5. :)

    I'm not trying to ask for the larger-scope 'allow remapping keyboard shortcuts', just the Escape key. :)

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

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

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  14. 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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  15. 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..

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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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 :-)

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  20. 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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