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  1. The LINQPad Activations webpage[0] should display the `Date Activated' in the clients' locale.

    [0] https://www.linqpad.net/licensing/ListActivations.aspx

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  2. Sometimes a table might have a couple columns at most that are for viewing, the others are foreign keys. It would be nice to hide those if I don't use the hyperlinks.

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  3. The namespace import smart tag works great, but if you are accessing an extension method that it won't offer any suggestions.

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  4. Hi,
    In order to paste results in Gmail:
    Or 1. Export to excel and attach.
    Or 2. Export to Word, copy (as RTF), then paste in Gmail.

    Sometimes I just want to paste some small results to Gmail. It would be awesome if you let to copy the result in RTF (even by loosing some of the formatting).

    Thanks!

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  5. If you could (for example) use Util.CurrentQuery.SaveVariable('currentCustomerId', 10) to save a background-variable, so that I can use Util.CurrentQuery.LoadVariable<int>('currentCustomerId') in my query to continue where I left off.

    Right now I have solved this by making my own functions in "My Extensions" to handle this.

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  6. Right now im writing a series of Linq2SQL / Entity statements.

    When pressing F5 the total amount of executiontime is shown in the statusbar...

    What would be cool, would be to extend the result browser to display execution statistics

    eg: every grid could have a row underneath that tells the following:
    Started 700 msec - Ended 1000 msec - Execution time: 300 msec

    this would be very usefull when optimizing queries

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  7. It would be good if we could enter intermediate language and execute it.

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  9. at least don't hide it just because the visible lines (of a larger script) don't need horizontal scrolling. Because dynamically hiding/showing it adjusts the vertical height of the vertical scrollbar which in turn makes tracking the scrollbar thumb using the mouse I-M-P-O-S-S-I-B-L-E !!!

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  10. It would be easier to have a Schemaexplorer rather than going to the treeview and look for the desired table

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  11. For example, if a date field in a database is nullable, switching to SQL mode shows the column as "NEXTDUE (DATE NULL)" and viewing in C# mode shows it as "NEXTDUE DateTime". When accessing this property in the code editor window, intellisense shows it as "DateTime?" so it would be great to reflect this in the connection browser as "NEXT_DUE DateTime?"

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  12. In the treeview at the left i want to do a simple Take(100) when clicking the table or when enter is pressed. Maybe also when new table is selected. Makes it possible to get a quick overview of the tables content without the need to right click and select Take(100)

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  13. Util.WriteCsv(IEnumerable<T> elements, string filePath) skips properties of T that are of types that do not belong to a certain hardcoded "approved" list of types, which, in the current version, seems to include string, int, float, double, bool, DateTime and decimal. For example, if T has a property of the Uri type, it will not be included. It is possible to override this behavior by using the overloaded version that takes "params string[] membersToInclude" argument(s), but this requires explicitly listing all members of type T that are to be included in the output. It would be nice to have an overloaded…

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  14. The arrow pointing to a currently executing line in the code editor is very helpful as a quick-and-dirty debugging/profiling tool. However, when working with code that is several pages long, the arrow often disappears from view and can be hard to find. An option to always keep the currently executing line visible in the code editor would be really helpful.

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  16. When typing out the method call I would like to be able to see the different overload methods and their XML summary. Currently we are able to see the overload's for the call and what the summary of the parameters of that call but not the summary of the actual overload.

    After I have finished the call I am able to hover over the call and see but it would be nice to see the summary while I type.

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  17. When testing out SQL scripts, it would be nice if LINQPad could create a temporary database for me, and drop it after execution. For instance, if I pick the SQLite database provider, a new SQLite file would just be created in the temp folder on the machine, my SQL executed against it, and the file deleted (or simply left for normal cleanup).

    This would work wonders for experimentation for things like Stack Overflow answers and similar, since I then normally want to start from scratch and include all tables and data in the script itself, rather than work with an…

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  18. I'd like the editor in LP to handle block selection exactly the way it does in VS... its easy and works well.

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  19. Click "add connection" there are 3 options "linq to sql", "WCF..." and "MS Datamarket...". None of these allow me to connect to SQL Server. Nothing in "view more drivers" looks like SQL Server either. My friend got it to work after a lot of time & effort, but doesn't remember how he did it. SQL Server is very popular. It should be easy to connect to it.

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  20. Linqpad cannot insert into tables with no primary key defined in the database. For instance, I have a table with an auto-incrementing identity column. In visual studio I can insert into this table simply by defining the identity column as primary key with auto-sync false in the dbml or editing the edmx xml by hand.

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