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  1. I'd like to know what has changed or updated or been enhanced when a new version becomes available, or to review previous release notes to see if there are existing features I missed.

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  2. Allow OData connections to have names so more than once conenction to the same URL can be created. When credentials change this can affect query resutls.

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  3. I've found LinqPad so useful that I leave it open for days at a time, and it fairly quickly reaches significant memory usage, right now 850mb private. Closing a few tabs it goes down to 600mb private.
    On startup for me it uses 130mb private.

    I'm wonder what is preventing the memory from being freed, and what could I do to allow it to free some?
    Perhaps you could add a small 'X' on the result set to be able to close that when I want to save the query in an open tab for a longer time? Or a…

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  4. Sometimes I have my window sized a little smaller in width and when I hit the drop down I am unable to read the database name. It would be nice if the dropdown content window would size to the data being displayed rather than retaining the width of the dropdown control. This would make it easier to read and select the item from the list expecially when there are several databases with the same name but different indexes at the end of them which currently cannot be viewed unless the whole application window is resized.

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  5. Apparently VB.NET queries are compiled with Option Strict Off. This is very annoying, because it often causes runtime errors that could have been detected at compile time if Option Strict had been On.

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  6. The idea here would be that I can create custom dll's other than just extensions to make reference to in my LinqPad.

    For example I would like to create my own Asserts dll in C# to kinda act like a quick unit test on an Idea I have.

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    Drop any DLL into the plug-in folder and it will be referenced automatically by LINQPad. Another solution (from 4.37) is to click on the ‘My Extensions’ query and hit F4. Any references that you add here will apply to all queries.

  7. Doing a simple EF query:
    this.BaseEntitySet.Include("NavProp1.SubNav").Include("NavProp2.ManyMany.OtherDetail")
    then there is soooooo much space=width wasted by EntityState and EntityKey columns in which I most of the time don't have any interrest in.

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  8. Connecting with IQ driver to Oracle is fantastic but it would be good to be able to filter out certain tables from the right hand tree view. Specfically Oracle has Bin$ and AQ$ tables that just pollutes that view. This is an option avialble in Oracle SQL Developer.

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  9. I'd like to be able to paste code straight into Linqpad (using statements and all) and immediately execute it. I find the time it takes to manually add in the references and using statements totally kills "the moment" and I end up pasting the code into Visual Studio instead because I'm in a hurry, sob sob!

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  10. 3 votes
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  11. Would be nice to have a option to give a name to a connection, as we have many connections going through IP and not host names

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  12. given a list like this

    new List<int>{1,1, 2}.Select (x =>
    new {
    hyper=new Hyperlinq("http://" + x.ToString()),
    x} ).Distinct().Dump();

    the result should be a distinct list of hyperlinks, but distinct doesn't work as expected when hyperlinq is present.

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  13. Either my memory is faulty, or one of the later versions of LINQPad has introduced a bug.

    The "Auto Scroll Results to End" setting on the Query menu, it would be really nice if checking that, exiting LINQPad, restarting LINQPad, would maintain the old setting.

    In version 4.47.05, this setting resets back to unchecked every time I start LINQPad.

    I think this used to persist between sessions before.

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  14. Don't evaluate Lazy<T>.Value in Results view. Allow it to be loaded by user interaction.

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  15. 3 votes
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  16. 3 votes
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  17. Currently I need to do:
    var dc = new DumpContainer{ Content = x }.Dump();
    // ...later, x changes...
    dc.Content = null; // Otherwise it doesn't notice the new assignment.
    dc.Content = x;

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  18. Any new version of the LINQPad should be downloaded manually. Most of the modern apps provide self updating option. With tools like https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows. It would be great and that would avoid checking for new releases.

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  19. Sometimes I end up .Dump()ing things a few times in a row, then manually v-diffing to see what changed.
    It'd be nice if there was a function that could calculate that for me, probably involving having to snapshot the state/output then diffing against the previous snapshot.

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  20. Please add a read-only text box to the Database Properties dialog box, showing the connection string generated by that connection. This would allow a user to just copy'n'paste in right into the app.config of their application. (presently, we can design our code in LinqPad, and C&P it into Visual studio -- this just allows us to continue that)

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