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  1. In addition to closing an established connection it should also cancel a connection that in the process of being established.

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  2. When using LinqPad for sql editing (i.e. as part of stored procedures, dragging table names from the tree view gives the wrong name because you are pluralising by adding "s". Would also be great if app automatically could fill in the schema for a table when dragged onto a sql query page.

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  3. It would be very useful to have the option to put query results in a grid with sortable columns etc. instead of just HTML.

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  4. For people with multiple projects with multiple folders of linq queries, you would have to use the "Set Folder" feature to change directories. One way to solve this problem is to default to the directory that you clicked on a .linq file. Another idea would be to keep a history of the project roots (folders) like Visual Studio.

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  5. Microsoft *.mdb file are very small, compact, efficient, and very easy to use with .NET
    I personally use them because of their size (very very small), and everything is located in this unique file (data, provider, queries.. everything!).
    People think there are limited, I believe with LINQ they are now as efficient as any other !!
    Please give us support to .mdb file, I'm waiting on this since your first LinqPad public release (yep.. that's a long time waiting)
    Thanks in advance for your beautifull software !!!

    134 votes
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  6. From VS, right-click on selected method, choose "Run in LinqPad". It creates a new query, copies the method from the source, adds using statements from the top of the file, and reference dlls used by the project. Likely would also need a way to reference other code files within the same project and/or reference the current dll

    5 votes
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  7. If you download and run the beta 4.x version, you can see that updates are available but you cannot automatically download and update the local version as you can with the release 4.x versions. It would be nice to be able to update to the newest beta version automatically (or possibly to the newest release if there is a version newer than the beta).

    10 votes
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  8. Add Tables node and display all database tables under this node. Like you do in Views, Stored Procedures, and Functions.

    Currently all tables are displayed as direct children of the database node.

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  9. I'd really like the ability to compile a "project" of the type C# Program (or the VB/F# equivalents) into a Console application. Calls to .Dump(); could be replaced with Console.WriteLine(); with IL transformation.

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  10. Currently I get the following exception when accessing POCO methods and properties.
    NotSupportedException: The specified type member 'Language' is not supported in LINQ to Entities. Only initializers, entity members, and entity navigation properties are supported.

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  11. It would be nice to be able to fine tune my query then click "make EXE". An executable would be produced that just ran the query and showed the Dump results as if I had run it directly in LINQPad. A more advanced option would be to allow some simple parameters to be passed and used in the query. This way I could write some simple reporting queries and then give them to someone else or add shortcuts to easily run them again myself.

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  12. something along the lines of either:
    A) a plugin to visual studio (toolbar button) that I can click "open in Linqpad" that will launch linqpad with a reference to the assembly of the current project, plus a dialog that pops up, where I can select any of the other projects in the solution to also reference, this will automatically bring in the namespaces as well.

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  13. 7 votes
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  14. since LINQPad 4 is a .NET 4 version,
    imho,
    I'd like to name it LINQPad4.exe
    BUT it refuses to run.

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  15. Can be important to see the generated calls of Std Query Operators when designing new LINQ providers. Request clicking the lambda button next to "Results" to show this, as in
    from x in new int[] {1,2,3}
    select x * x

    new int[] {1,2,3}.Select(x=>x*x)

    This gets real important with the various SelectMany overloads, as in

    for a in new int[] {2,3}
    for b in new int[] {7, 11}
    select new int[] {a, b}

    does this gen code for

    IEn<B> SelectMany<A,B>(this IEn<A> as, Func<A, IEn<B>> f)

    or for

    IEn<B> SelectMany<A,B>(this IEn<A> as, Func<A, IEn<A>> f, Func<A, A, B>> g)

    ? Would love…

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  16. In some Windows network environments local profiles sizes are sometimes restricted by group policies, meaning samples can't be download to the default Application Data folders. My Queries has a Set Folder... option. This would be useful for the Samples tab too.

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  17. add ability to connect via oledb

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  18. Even on my dual quad core box with 4GB RAM, LinqPad can take a long time to open. The UI is often unresponsive when switching to the application or compiling/running a query.

    I'd like to see some investment in improving the performance of the application and giving it a more lightweight feel.

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  19. LINQPad currently defaults to C# Expression. I would prefer VB Expression. If you default to last language everyones happy.

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  20. like CsharpRepl in mono

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