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  1. in the SQL output window instead - the parameters emitted as coments are not executable.
    Putting them on separate lines with a declare in-front and the appropriate type in-front would be very useful

    e.g. instead of

    -- Region Parameters
    -- @year_0='2024' (DbType = Int16), @period_1='5' (DbType = Int16)
    -- EndRegion

    output:

    -- Region Parameters
    -- declare @year_0 int ='2024' -- (DbType = Int16)
    -- declare @
    period_1 int ='5' -- (DbType = Int16)
    -- EndRegion

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  2. Hi Joseph. You may already do this, but can LinqPad support .Net Regular Expression Source Generators?

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/regular-expression-source-generators

    I'm interested in the Regex side of things, ge.g

    [GeneratedRegex("abc|def", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase, "en-US")]
    private static partial Regex AbcOrDefGeneratedRegex();
    
    private static void EvaluateText(string text)
    {
        if (AbcOrDefGeneratedRegex().IsMatch(text))
        {
            // Take action with matching text
        }
    }
    
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  3. When I close the AI Assistant Settings window, I except to be returned to the main Preferences window. Instead, both are closed. Is this a bug?

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  4. The void OnInit() hook, used for for example starting Avalonia before running and dumping UI elements, does not work for F# (Or, rather, I struggle to figure out how).

    The twitter discussion on Avalonia and F# with some creenshots are here https://twitter.com/bjartnes/status/1717422836250271800

    It would be nice with a feature similar to the OnInit hooks but for F#.

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  5. I frequently utilize Linqpad for processing Excel files by reading data through the FileInto method. My workflow typically involves manipulating this data and subsequently storing it in a database. To streamline this process, I propose an enhancement to the user experience with the following capabilities:

    Keyboard Shortcut for File Selection: Implement a shortcut key that prompts the user to select an Excel file. This would enable quick and direct access to data files without navigating through menus.

    Automatic Structure Discovery: Upon file selection, Linqpad could automatically analyze and ascertain the basic structure of the Excel file. This functionality should include:

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  6. I frequently utilize Linqpad for processing Excel files by reading data through the FileInto method. My workflow typically involves manipulating this data and subsequently storing it in a database. To streamline this process, I propose an enhancement to the user experience with the following capabilities:

    1. Keyboard Shortcut for File Selection: Implement a shortcut key that prompts the user to select an Excel file. This would enable quick and direct access to data files without navigating through menus.

    2. Automatic Structure Discovery: Upon file selection, Linqpad could automatically analyze and ascertain the basic structure of the Excel file. This functionality should include:

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  7. Allow user to switch on gathering of JIT dumps (DOTNET_JitDump and rest) and visualize and/or save them.
    Provide UI (or at least suggestions/help) for building filter patterns.

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  8. During rapid prototyping, I have been using CTRL+- to navigate to previous location in my C# code. However, once in awhile I accidentally hit CTRL+0 instead, which seems to switch to F# program. This results in destructively modifying the entire source file, which cannot be undone. Even if you manually switch back to C# program, the code is still broken. At this point the only choice is to restore the file from backup or hand-edit back to corrected for the language switch.

    It really should be possible to simply hit 'Undo' and it should restore the file as it was…

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  9. LinqPad is great! I use it nearly every day.

    One single thing I'm missing is displaying my custom EF property <summary> docs in the results view then hovering over title bar.

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  10. When working from multiple locations, the folder structure often does not match. Currently, when libraries are referenced from the file system, the location is an absolute path. There could be multiple approaches to addressing this. The most user-friendly would be to have a set of "roots" on the machine and project level (a dictionary of names to paths). Query level would override the machine level. These could be also read from within the query using a utility method also, and editable from the UI. When a library is opened from such a mapped path, it would be stored relative to…

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  11. When I'm writing code and need to define a string, I find it quite discomforting that I have to type two quotes. This is because many current IDEs and editors automatically complete double and single quotes. When I define a string, I only need to type one quote and the other is automatically filled in.
    The summary of functions is as follows.:
    1. Automatically complete double and single quotation marks. When you input a quotation mark, it will automatically add the matching one after the cursor position. Pressing the tab key inside the quotation marks allows you to exit them.…

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  12. I have gotten used to my code editors having automatic code formatting via prettier and csharpier in VSCode, Visual Studio, and Rider. When I use linqpad, I find myself spending a bunch of time formatting code to make it easier to read. I would love to be able to enable csharpier to run on save in linqpad.

    They have a public API which is documented here: https://csharpier.com/docs/API

    Thanks for making my favorite tool LINQPad! 🧡

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  13. It would be great to add "#load" functionality to LINQPad 5 , which is currently only available in LINQPad 6 and later versions.

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  14. I really would like to see for each property whether it's a readonly or a writable property. Maybe you could give the gray background of the headings some red touch for RO ones?

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  15. Like Python and Ruby, this feature could be integrated with no pain. There is an hosting interface for boo. It's all about syntax coloring and intellisense.

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  16. I use linqpad to execute scripts on servers on the cloud. I copy linqpad.exe plus a few useful .net assemblies onto each server via script.

    I dont want to have to manually add in the references each time I load linqpad onto a server. It would be much more useful ( and mistake proof) if I can simply do a deploy to my server which included a linqpad.config with the references to my utility assemblies as well as extra namespaces. Please comment if this is not clear and I'll elaborate further.

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  17. It would be nice if the tabs had icons showing if they were SQL or code files. If you have mixed tabs of both, it would be much faster to find the query you're looking for.

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  18. like interactive shell, or csharp(1) on Mono, would be nice I think!

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  19. Make it clearer that autocompletion does not work with VB, before one commits to a purchase.

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  20. Don't block the UI thread when doing some expensive work. I'm using LINQPad at work and at home (ironically I paid for my home license but am using the unregistered version one at work) and at work I connect to large databases with thousands of tables and LINQPad takes a long time to "deal" with scripts connecting to these kinds of databases but it would help with a progress bar or at least some notion of "I'm busy" rather than the ghost whitening of the UI.

    Otherwise thanks for a superb product. :-)

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