Detect file changes
I love LINQPad, but I really, really wish it noticed if the files changed on disk while they were being edited. Currently the application will overwrite a changed file on disk when it has been modified by another editor. There are two scenarios where this happens, one is when the file is under version control and I have reverted it to an older version or otherwise changed it using some version control function and the other is when I have used some other editor to edit the file (such as SlickEdit or Visual Studio, both of which detect if LINQPad has changed the file).
Scott Gartner
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This is supported in the latest LINQPad 5 beta (as of June 2019) and in LINQPad 6.
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Scott Gartner
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This would be very nice. In relation to editing the file outside of LinqPad, the XML at the top occasionally confuses the parser in the external editor. To fix this I would suggest wrapping the XML in a valid comment (/* <xml/> */). This way you could parse out the comment and then parse the XML, and the external editor could be set to recognize .linq as a .cs (or whatever languages you support).
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Joris Talma
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(General user statement) As LINQPad already supports this in the static data context driver, implementing this in the user query domain shouldn't be to difficult? :)
https://www.linqpad.net/DataContextDrivers.docx
Chapter "Overriding GetLastSchemaUpdate (dynamic drivers)" (page 15):
"With static drivers, no action is required: LINQPad installs a file watcher on the target assembly. When that assembly changes, it automatically refreshes the Schema Explorer."