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  1. Create a web version of LINQPad, similar to jsFiddle or dotnetFiddle. linqFiddle would be an outstanding product and would be infinitely useful.

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  2. When adding a new item in the middle of, or deleting an item from the middle of the second list to compare using Util.Dif, the rest of the list is flagged as out of sync since it uses an index-based comparison. In other words, Util.Dif compares elements at index 0 with each other, then at 1 with each other, etc.

    It would be better if more advanced diffing algorithm was used to do this and could flag the entire element as red if it was removed, the entire element as green if it was added, or individual values with red/green…

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  3. This sould make it possible to add custom code for sorting columns or and other interactive behaviours.

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  4. Util.Dif is awesome :)
    It would be nice to do something like
    var dif = Util.Dif(o1, o2);
    if (dif.IsDifferent)
    {
    dif.Result.Dump();
    }

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  5. At the moment, items such as the editor do not read with a screen reader (at least the screen reader I use, NVDA, which is available at http://www.nvda-project.org). It would be nice if, when a screen reader is detected, it is changed to something like a rich text box or normal multiline text box with the advanced editing features of the editor that it has now.

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  6. If I'm Dumping an IEnumerable<Foo>, it would be very nice to be able to use "exclude" to suppress members on the individual items; currently, "exclude" looks for properties on the IEnumerable itself. I can accomplish this by Dumping to a data grid, but I think it should work the same way with rich text as well.

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  7. Allow a query tab to be labeled without having to be saved. This would really help when you are doing a lot of ad-hoc queries and have many query tabs open and need to navigate between them.

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  8. Large numbers are exported as scientific notation.

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  9. 3 votes
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  10. I would be great to use LinqPad as a scratchpad i.e. for it to execute code and print results as I type, or with N seconds delay.

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  11. I'd like to put some script to public git repo, but I don't want to share connection data which is stored in *.linq files. Please add option to skip saving this. I fully accept a must to choose DB after each script opening.

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  12. I'd like to be able to configure the transparency of the CTRL key when the Intellisense window pops up.

    The problem I have is, I use Emacs key bindings and CTRL+N and CTRL+P interfere with my UP/DOWN navigation scrolling through the Intellisense list. It's annoying trying to move up and down and the pop up keeps fading to transparent.

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  13. I recently write a web crawler which fetches data from website and store into the database. Since I have already had some same kind of data in the database, I have to use linq to detect whether or not the data fetched from website has already been in the database. Here comes the problem: every times the compiler runs into the Linq expression against the database table, it seems like it generates a new instance of the database, and not disposing it after leaving the brackets. Thus the query at some point would ran out of the memory. I rewrite…

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  14. Our Dev and QA servers have at least a hundred databases on each server instance. It would be great if there was a "Quick Select" for databases similar to the "Navigate to Query" ctrl+, window. I know there is the drop down at the top, but it is not a searchable drop down.

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  15. Detect the Dump() statements and render an inline Button next to it (or in the left column). That button work immediately execute only that Dump() statement.

    Probably only works in the C# statement(s) mode

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  16. I'm hoping this would be a fairly easy change, but would make my life a lot easier. I dump a lot of abbreviated strings/hyperlinqs which I only sometimes need to differentiate the absolute paths or other truncated details for. It would be great if I could just mouse over the text to get some additional info.

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  17. LINQPad adds * (asterisk) indicator char to the current tab when saved script is changed (char removed/added, etc). It would be great if this * (asterisk) indicator is removed as soon as changes are undone by multiple CTRL+Z commands. As for now, even if file is restored to the original state, the asterisk is still displayed and it's difficult to tell if the file was really changed or not (safe to resave or not?).

    Please consider implementing this feature, it should be a piece of cake! :)

    Thanks!

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  18. Dim wnd As New NativeWindow()
    wnd.AssignHandle(Process.GetProcessById (Util.HostProcessID).MainWindowHandle)

    'Add the above code or the c# version of it to a Util function that lets us pop up dialogs that show above the linqpadwindow.
    '_____
    Dim browser = New FolderBrowserDialog With {.ShowNewFolderButton = False, .SelectedPath = pth}
    If browser.ShowDialog(wnd) = DialogResult.OK Then
    pth = browser.SelectedPath
    End If

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  19. "Show all nestings levels" works only for the first items! Not for all. Please fix!

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  20. It would be nice if FSharp Option types would render as (value | null), rather than, at the moment, as a nested table with (Some(value) | None)

    This would be consistent with the rendering for Nullable<T>, which prefers readability over being totally strict around the type system.

    I appreciate you don't want to add an endless list of special cases, but this would be really useful.

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