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  1. When using Util.Dif on two dictionaries, I see that a key that was present in both was shown with a white background, the value was changed, however.

    However, small dictionaries tend to keep their order and I created these two dictionaries:

    17 -> A
    18 -> B

    vs.

    18 -> B
    17 -> A

    in other words, the only thing different is the order in which I added the elements. Util.Dif now shows the entire thing as different, since it compares 17 with 18 and then 18 with 17.

    For dictionaries it would be better to do a key-based comparison…

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  2. Resharper implments the most useful text selection feature other. CTRL+W extends the currently selected text out to the containing scope. Hit it again and it extends the selection again. And so on.

    It's an absolutely amazing way for selecting block of code, or full method, or an entire class declaration, etc - all from the current cursor position.

    This feature alone is easily one of my most used Resharper features. I'd love to have it in Linqpad!

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  3. With the release of v2.1 EF Core (finally) becomes an option for real-world scenarios. Please add (at least basic) support for it.

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  4. When changing query type (e.g. C#->VB) the code is immediately reformatted. All enums to Enums, classes to Classes, trys to Trys, etc. If this was not intentional (such as a scroll wheel over the dropdown) it can be some effort to reverse as undo is not available.

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  5. I've been using LinqPad's Dump() method from C#.
    and showing HTML result using following code.
    https://gist.github.com/altrive/0ce60da4dd58a2d31f4a560c9457bd6f
    It's useful when viewing variable content without debugger.

    It' works on .NET runtime, but it does't works under .NET Core runtime.
    (because of WinForms/WPF/etc. dependencies exists)

    I know it's difficult to LinqPad itself works under .NET Core in near future.
    But is there any chance LinqPad's Dump()/Diff() components available to .NET Core?

    Possible actions

    1. Remove WinForms/LinqThirdParty DLL dependencies from LinqPad's Dump() call paths -> I don't sure it's possible or not. but It seem to works if related dependencies are propery resolved.
    2. Publish Dump()…
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  6. Using "await foreach(...)" in C# statements causes a compiler error unless an expression is also awaited: CS4033 The 'await' operator can only be used within an async method. Consider marking this method with the 'async' modifier and changing its return type to 'Task'.

    So "await Task.Yield(); await foreach(...)" works as expected, while "await foreach(...)" doesn't.

    As an aside: VB Statements/Espression don't seem support Async/Await at all currently. I am not really affected by it because I don't use it, but I thought this might be worth noting nonetheless. This also applies to LINQPad 5

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  7. Time and again I hit Alt-Backspace, which is normally Undo (in Visual Studio, Word, etc.; same as Ctrl-Z), but in LinqPad it activates the menu — this throws me off completely! When I finally recover, I've lost my context and forgotten what I was typing.

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  8. I wanted to make my progressbar show the label above the progressbar. To do this I ended up viewing the source of the ProgressBar and creating my own copy just to modify the Render. This would be greatly simplified if the ProgressBar control exposed the Render method.

    protected override object Render() { }

    then I could simply inherit the control I want override its rendering logic.

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  9. When I try to start LINQPad 6, I get a message "To run this application, you must install .NET Core". Please either provide a version of LINQPad with its own bundled .NET Core version ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/ ), detect "dotnet" on the PATH, or support starting LINQPad 6 with an argument pointing to the SDK location (which can be anywhere if you download the SDK as a ZIP from https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core/3.1 or https://github.com/dotnet/installer ).

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  10. Please make a hotkey for reconnect current selected database in connection dropdown.

    I often loose connection to database. Sometimes I intentionally have to break connection by turning off VPN. Sometimes I do something else in between and connection times out. Then I have to de-select and re-select the same database connection in the dropdown. It's a bit annoying to do this 20 times in a day since it breaks the work flow. Having a hotkey for this would make things smooth.

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  11. I happened upon the feature yesterday randomly by clicking on the Help menu. It would be awesome if it either got moved to a context menu action or even a new menu group (Tools for instance) for better visibility.

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  12. Currently, the only way to display and update a chart in a DumpContainer is to call chart.ToBitmap() and set the DumpContainer's content to the bitmap. This is workable, but the call to ToBitmap (which in turn calls ToWebChart) overrides many of the attributes of the underlying chart (color palette, axis intervals, etc.). This severely limits the configurability of the charting function.

    I know that one solution is to use ToWindowsChart(), modify the attributes that I want to change, and then dump the Windows Chart, but this opens up another visualizer. I'd like to just be able to set the Content…

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  13. Add ability to filter NuGet search results in the LINQPad NuGet Manager to filter the results to show only the Author/Publisher/"Created By" value specified by either keyword pattern(s) in the search boxes or from a drop-down of all authors/publishers/"created by" values that match the current search results. There have been many times I've wanted to limit the results to just Microsoft or another well-known publisher.

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  14. Hide SQL Server internal tables related to replication unless the "Include system Tables, Views, and SPs" option is checked for the connection. These objects are currently being included in the tables list even though they are internal system objects that have ismsshipped = 1 in the sys.objects table. Examples include dbo.sysarticles, dbo.syssubscriptions, dbo.MSpeerrequest, dbo.MSpubidentity_range, and many others.

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  15. Maybe by having some kind of escape code whereby your dumped string doesn't get encoded or by having tags like in forums [url][/url]

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  16. or similar programmatic functionality

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  17. The results can be collapsed/expanded.
    So it must be possible to allow sorting, without having to edit the query and re-run it.

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  18. When no instance of LP is running and you open a .linq file by double clicking it and said file has regions in it, LP seems to ignore those regions.

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  19. As per the "allow extension snippets" suggestion, extension snippets are now permitted. However, these do not work if they reference a local type.

    Example:

    void Main()
    {
    new Local().AddFoo().Dump();
    }

    public class Local {}

    public static class Extensions
    {
    // The type or namespace name 'Local' could not be found
    public static string AddFoo(this Local local)
    {
    return local.ToString() + "Foo";
    }
    }

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