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  1. bug: async program in LinqPad6 (EF) doesn't wait.

    .. while writing this explanation I noticed that my Async void Main() had an incorrect return type.

    After changing it to Task, everything works as expected.

    Could you please report it as an error when or warning (green squigly) when writing "async void Main" and suggest "async Task Main" instead ?

    When doing the void' version, Linqpad executes and never waits - so the program completes, but run in the background...

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  2. display middle c# code like as sharplab

    e.g.
    https://sharplab.io/#v2:EYLgtghglgdgNAExAagD4AEBMBGAsAKAIDcIAnAAgC8ALCGAcwGc7yBecmAUwHdyBlAC4BXBJxgCAFACIadJnSkBKANwEC6AMzlSnAMYB7Ugn7DR4iYNKx65AHIQwnFUA===

    The right window will display the "middle" c# code, it's very useful.

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  3. Bug - chart Dump descriptions are applied to future Dumps as well

    Great product, just found a small bug. The Chart Dump is incorrectly being applied to everything dumped after it in this case.

    void Main()
{
    var a = new[] { 1, 2, 3 }
    .Dump() // adding THIS dumb caused the bug.  remove this and the errorous grouping goes away.
    ; 

    a.Chart().Dump("This desc should only be chart");

    a.Dump("this is nested...");
    a.Dump("this too.");
}
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  4. Interactive Regex Evaluator: add spellcheck="false" to patternbox and inputbox

    Spelling underlines interfere with pattern editing/selections and constitute visual clutter. Patterns and, possibly, input texts are seldom valid to a spellchecker. Moreover, if you try to open the settings from the spelling right-click menu, the page is invalid.

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  5. Fix spelling

    Under Preferences -> Advanced -> "Don't show Undo availibility message when restoring queries", the word "availibility" is spelled incorrectly. It should be "availability".

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  6. Provide clickable links in exception stack traces to jump to error.

    I was benchmarking some code which happened to throw an exception and noticed that the exception stack trace has been formatted to replace the line number with a clickable link that goes to that line in my query.

    E.g.

    ![](https://us.v-cdn.net/5019392/uploads/editor/oe/99r1kswzag49.png "")

    That's a pretty handy feature and I was wondering if the same thing could be done with the unhandled exception message handler?

    The FormatException code in BenchmarkDotNet.linq only works for lines in the current query (which would probably cover the vast majority of cases), but doesn't work with #loaded scripts, but the stack trace in the debugger can…

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  7. use (or selection) of a mono spaced font in the output shell

    when printing to the output shell / console the font is not mono spaced, please change with a mono spaced or offer to select a font

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  8. Claude AI

    First and foremost, we are very happy with the software you provide. We use it in several of our projects (e.g., https://gegenfeld.com/tools as well as https://jntzn.com and https://jntzn.de/). However, we would like to suggest a Claude AI implementation as an alternative to ChatGPT/OpenAI, if that's possible. Keep up the good work!

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  9. Mention SAC in Antivirus performance test

    I believe disabling windows 11 SAC Smart App Control, should be mentioned in the Antivirus Performance Test as it has severe impact on performance even when utilizing DEV drive. Turning it off made the test go from ~ 400 ms to < 1 ms on my laptop

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  10. Make the search and replace modal resizable.

    The search and replace modal is currently of a fixed width. It would be helpful for longer search queries to be able to resize it.

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  11. Increase the height of the database connection chooser in Editor window again

    Until LinqPad 7, the database connection chooser in the Editor window top-bar used to expand to the full length of the window. But since v8, it has a fixed height (looks like 320px or so). The scrolling experience of the dropdown is very poor which makes scrolling n choosing a row entry that much frustrating. Would be great if the old behavior is put back, i.e. full-height. If that cannot be done, please improve the scrolling experience.

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    completed  ·  AdminJoe Albahari (LINQPad) (CEO / Founder, LINQPad) responded

    This has been fixed in 9.3.19 as follows:

    (1) The combo dropdown is now much taller

    (2) Hovering over the last item should no longer result in scrolling

    (3) It now responds better to the scrollwheel

    (4) If now responds to native trackpad scrolling gestures

    Also note that in most cases there are easier ways to select a connection (such as dragging the connection from the TreeView to the editor, or right-clicking the connection and choosing "Use in current script").

  12. Bring back Preferences / Advanced / Code Formatting

    I used these settings from LINQPad 8 and earlier:

    Preferences > Advanced > Code Formatting

    I set most of them to false to have a C# formatting style more like other languages.

    Can we get this back in Linqpad 9?

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  13. Feature Request: Native Markdown Rendering Support for .Dump() Method

    Add native rich Markdown rendering support to the LINQPad .Dump() method, which can parse Markdown-formatted text and render it with beautiful, styled display effects (similar to rendered HTML/rich text), instead of displaying raw plain-text Markdown syntax.

    In 2026, AI chatbots (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Kimi etc.) are now the primary companion tool for .NET developers using LINQPad. A near-universal standard is that all AI responses are returned in Markdown format.
    When we got these AI-generated Markdown responses (code blocks, formatted explanations, lists, bold/italic text, headings, links) from LINQPad we want to use the .Dump() method to display them — LINQPad…

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  14. Support 1:1 relationships

    1:1 relationships would be better represented with entity references on each side - rather than a EntitySet<> on one side.

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  15. fix bug with "new" in comments

    Typing "new" in a comment causes the intellisense to popup.

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  16. Fix bug for default query type

    If you change the default query type to C# Program or C# Statements and then create the query by right clicking on a table then result doesn't add the necessary ";" to the generated query.

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  17. Map Console.WriteLine to Dump extension method

    Often times I use LINQPad to throw together some sample code to post on Stack Overflow. While the veterans will clearly recognize code that uses the Dump() extension method as LINQPad code, beginners are puzzled. So I change it all to Console.WriteLine before posting. It would be nice if I could start with Console.WriteLine and have that behave the way Dump() would.

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  18. support for reactive extensions

    support IObservable to be Dumped. Have a look at http://naveensrinivasan.com/2010/04/07/using-odata-linqpad-reactive-extensions-rx-to-query-stackoverflow/

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  19. Maximum Result Greater Than 10000

    As it is with SSMS, I'd like the option to return ALL the results of a query. For example, I'm currently trying to execute a query that should return over 46k rows and I'm only seeing 10k because of the limit imposed by LINQPad.

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  20. put 'executing' status in tab (spinner, etc)

    If I have a long-running query in one tab and switch to a different tab to do other work, I would like the non-active tab to visually show that it's still busy somehow. This way I can tell when it finishes and switch back to check the results.

    The workaround is to open a new instance of LINQPad, but sometimes I have 2 or 3 long-running queries and would rather just stick with tabs if I could get them to communicate their 'still running' status even when inactive. :)

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