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  1. I just bought the autocompletion but I'm disappointed by the fact that LinqPad catches key combinations that I use to enter polish national characters (namely ALT-S). I'd like to be able to turn off this keyboard shortcut or redefine it. The ALT-something shortcuts are very risky as Windows often uses them for the national characters. And it's annoying when instead of just entering a letter into the editor window it activates SQL panel. PLEASE fix it.

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  2. You can open ILSpy, load an assembly and navigate to a Type using the following command line:
    ilspy "%userprofile%\documents\linqpad.exe" /navigateTo:T:LINQPad.Log

    You will need to be able to configure the path to ILSpy in the Config as it can be installed anywhere.
    More ILSpy command line support is here: https://github.com/icsharpcode/ILSpy/blob/master/doc/Command%20Line.txt

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  3. I'd like to be able to have linqpad running on my app and sql servers and be able to securely execute my linqpad script on a remote machine, e.g. on sql server 1, or my hosting server (x), I'd run linqpad as a service, on my dev machine, I'd I want to be able to write a query and test it on my dev, box, then when I'm happy with it, I want to run it securely agains the remote box, and this is the critical part, so that the queries all run (locally) on the remote box without the…

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  4. When storing .LINQ files in source control, running them on multiple machines end up checking in minor changes very often, due to the absolute path of relative references also being stored, like this:

    <Reference Relative="..\..\MDA.Cards\bin\Debug\MDA.Cards.dll">D:\dev\VS.NET\MtGDeckAnalyzer\MDA.Cards\bin\Debug\MDA.Cards.dll</Reference>

    I suggest you don't store the absolute path when you also got the Relative attribute, so that the programs only change when you actually make a change, and not change because you happen to run them on a computer with a different path setup.

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  5. Often I want to search through all column names on all tables. For example, I'll know there is a 'description' column in my database, but I don't know what table it is on. I'd like to be able to start typing "desc" and have it show any columns containing the text "desc", and the table that column is on, and it's type. Much like ReSharper's Goto Symbol function.

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  6. Have an option that formats the sql statements just like in sql management studio

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  7. Occasionally, when I press tab, it adds another newline instead of indenting. I can't always recreate it, but it seems to do it at the most inopportune times. It might be an attempt to auto-align method parameters or anonymous type members.

    Sometimes, if I press tab enough times, it will start indenting again but, again, I can't tell when it will or won't...

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  8. I work at a company where (a) only DBAs can change the DB, and (b) the DBAs avoid adding foreign keys. So, when LinqPad builds the table objects, they lack the association properties. I'd like to be able to add them when working with LinqPad. (in-memory only is fine for now; persisting them can wait for some future suggestion....)

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  9. Add additional support for selecting text with the mouse that works the same as most Windows applications:

    In query editor pane:

    • Triple-click = select entire line
    • Triple-click + drag = select multiple entire lines

    In SQL results view pane:

    • Double-click = select entire word
    • Double-click + drag = select multiple entire words
    • Triple-click = select entire cell contents
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  10. In the connection properties dialog, you could add a field for XmlMappingSource path and then use it to create the DataContext:

    string xml = File.ReadAllText(pathToXmlMappingFile);

    MappingSource mapping = XmlMappingSource.FromXml(xml);

    DataContext context = new DataContext(connectionString, mapping);

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  11. 10 votes
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  12. Add Tables node and display all database tables under this node. Like you do in Views, Stored Procedures, and Functions.

    Currently all tables are displayed as direct children of the database node.

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  13. If you download and run the beta 4.x version, you can see that updates are available but you cannot automatically download and update the local version as you can with the release 4.x versions. It would be nice to be able to update to the newest beta version automatically (or possibly to the newest release if there is a version newer than the beta).

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  14. CTRL + Roll is great to resize the query window, being able to do the same in the results pane would be really useful also. With slightly complex queries the output in the Results pane 9although nicely formatted in the HTML) can be rather too big to view on a small screen. The option to resize would be a great help.

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  15. To Allow set text encoding for result. Now LinqPad can get result , but it is unreadable to me since what I have in result is not English. Thanks!

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  16. 10 votes
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  17. I shared a script with a colleague today. However we realised it would not run because I was using and referencing logic from the My Extensions script.

    My idea is that when a script is uploaded to instance share, it should include (or allow me include) logic from the My Extensions script, so that the script is able to be run on another machine without modification

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  18. Implement a driver based on the famous dapper library from Stackoverflow. Dapper is faster than Linq2SQL or EF. It'd great to take advantage of it in LINQpad.

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  19. It would be nice to be able to test PowerShell From LINQPad, currently I have to use PowerGUI for testing Powershell Script.

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  20. Many of the tool panes in Linqpad already support touch scrolling. This makes it very comfortable to use on a touch enabled device like a Surface. However the Code Editor does not support touch scrolling. Visual Studio recently introduced this feature and it is great for reading code on a tablet.

    Please support this in the Linqpad editor also.

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