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  1. Let me close without asking if I want to save

    I use LinqPad almost entirely for one-off, throwaway queries -- for example, I'll use one of our utility classes to do a quick calculation. When I close LinqPad, the "do you want to save?" prompt is a pointless annoyance.

    It would be much nicer if LINQPad followed the model of how Web browsers save and restore tabs.

    Never prompt me to save; just autosave my documents to a temp location and then exit.

    Next time I open, give me an unobtrusive way to see my old queries and reopen them if I wish; but if I'd rather just start a…

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  2. Support for C# 6 Language Features

    C# 6.0 is currently in Preview with Visual Studio 2015 preview. As I am starting to use the newest version of VS, I am exploring the behavior of the new language features, including the new nameof operator, string interpolation, the null conditional operator, index initializers, etc. I instinctively go to LINQPad to test something out including these but then realize it is not yet supported :(

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  3. Hot exit functionality for open (and unsaved) editor tabs

    Add an option to restore the open editor tabs (session) on restart of the application again. Especially the unsaved editor tabs. This is a really handy feature of e.g. Sublime 2 and helps to avoid unnecessary file bloat for not so important scratches worked on in LINQPad.

    36 votes
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  4. Make explicit whether LINQPad is running as 64- or 32-bit.

    I get the dreaded 'An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format... ' error, which usually means that I'm trying to load an assembly compiled for 64-bit in a 32-bit environment. However, there's no explicit way to see this in LINQPad. It could be shown in the 'About' window.

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  5. Line Numbers in Editor

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  6. Sharing code across LINQPad queries

    At present, the only way to share code across LINQPad queries is to put them in "My Extensions" but this causes the code to be available to ALL queries, and it would be good if this could be specified on a more granular basis, where the code is shared with only a subset of queries.

    For example, in my queries folder, if I'm working on ACME API, I'll have a folder called "ACME API" with separate files for whatever I'm working with - eg. get-user.linq, add-product.linq.

    It would be good if I could create a file called common.linq (or something…

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  7. Show the default namespaces and assembly references in the query properties

    By default, LinqPad imports several namespaces (System, System.Linq...) and references several assemblies (System, System.Core...). This is fine in most cases, but sometimes I'd like to be able to remove some namespaces or references, and currently there's no way to do that. These default namespaces and assemblies should appear in the query properties so that they can be removed (it could be an option for users who don't want that)

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  8. Add Bing search

    Allow user to specify search provider - Bing.

    34 votes
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  9. Make the output window show results as they're produced

    For long-running queries that call Dump multiple times, it would be good to have the results from the earlier queries show immediately rather than waiting for the whole query to complete.

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  10. Allow fixed-width font for the results pane

    Some multi-line strings are easier to read in a fixed width font; these are hard to read in LINQPad today.

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  11. Add basic refactoring support

    When your prototypical scripts evolve, you may want clean them up a bit by renaming variables, methods and classes to match their new/changed responsibilities. As find/replace is error prone, such a rename refactoring support would be neat.

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  12. Highlight same text as selected in editor

    Just like in Visual Studio (and MANY other editors):
    When you select some text in the editor, the same text gets highlighted. This helps the developer identify errors and places that needs to be changed / refactored etc..

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  13. multi monitor support

    Add so that you can set the results in different monitors. Would be very nice when the result is very large.

    30 votes
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  14. Disable automatic server connection

    When Linqpad first starts, it automatically connects to every server you have added as a connection. Please add an option to disable this behavior and only make a connection after clicking on the server first.

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  15. Reopen previous tabs after restart

    If I have open 4 tabs, then close LinqPad and restart it again, it would be nice to have the tab's open as it was before. Same behavior as notepad++

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  16. Automatically Switch From Expression to Statement(s)

    Upon detecting multiple statements: Automatically switch Language from Expression to Statement(s) for selected language.

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  17. Show .sql files in "My Queries" tree

    At the moment only ".linq" files are shown.

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  18. Find and replace dialog should not be modal

    A few issues with a modal dialog:

    1. If one wishes to undo a replace operation they must close the dialog, undo, then reopen it.

    2. If the user has the cursor in an undesirable position for starting a search, they must close the dialog, correct it, then reopen.

    26 votes
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  19. Make Ctrl+W close current open document

    It's faster than alt-F4, and works in many other applications with multiple tabs.

    25 votes
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  20. Allow users to disable or change the upload to instant share hotkey.

    Many code editors use Ctrl-Shift-U to toggle the case of selected text to upper case.

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