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  1. I am working with StreamInsight and I highly recommend to give us the option to include the full ticks when displaying a datetime value, this would be extremelly useful.

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  2. Recently LinQPad seems to have become rather niche, I don't really understand what the new features do or what they are for. For example this nuGet, I've no idea what or why I'd be interested in. I'd vote for a complete documentation similar to the c# in a nutshell series on each feature of LinQPad hi-lighting premium features where appropriate.

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  3. While in "C# Program" mode it would be cool to generate the method stub just like in Visual Studio .. it could be done in 2 ways:

    1. use mouseclick or similar to activate the function

    2. generate the method on the fly while writing (detect when unknown methodname is written when starting/closing a paran/bracket)

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  4. When the query is running there is a counter but after it completes the counter goes away, can you leave it up?

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  5. When viewing data in the grid and using the "Export to CSV file", the resulting file doesn’t have a BOM (byte order mark), and so when you double-click the CSV file, Excel opens up and (at least in Excel 2010) shows the following dialog box:

    The file you are trying to open, 'MyData.csv', is in a different format than specified by the file extension. Verify that the file is not corrupt and is from a trusted source before opening the file. Do you want to open the file now?

    If you click 'Yes', another dialog box is displayed:

    Excel has…

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  6. Add feature that allows exported Excel data from a SQL database to be refreshed as the SQL database is updated with new data

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  7. Allow the LINQ expression tree to be modified before executing the query. I do this in my app so we can write our queries without having to worry about making them multi-tenant. But when I pop the query from our source code into LINQPad, I have to manually edit the query to make it multi-tenant. Would be great if we could hook in a custom ExpressionVisitor.

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  8. A HTML Browser/Editor will be welcome to make simple pages for documentation and other funcionality...
    Show page in full query window in browser mode and supply a button to enter edit mode (top pane for visual edit/dump pane for html edit)... a direct HTML edit mode can be edited in lower pane (Dump panel)...

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  9. I have an SQL Server database which is being used for a MVC 4 project in VS 2010. I'm using LINQPad to run queries against my database. When I open LINQPad, I can connect to my .mdf database file and run queries as expected. When I close LINQPad, open up VS and try to view my database in server explorer the following error is shown:

    "The database 'C:..... .MDF' cannot be opened because it is version 706. This server supports version 655 and earlier. A downgrade path is not supported. Could not open new database 'C:..... .MDF'. CREATE DATABASE is…

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  10. The ability to search the documentation via google by pressing the F1 key is great, however the order of the terms is a bit different than titles in the MSDN docs.

    For example, pressing F1 on the someType.Namespace queries the google for:

    System Type.Namespace property

    which doesn't yield expected results, however:

    Type.Namespace property System

    does. Should take less time to fix than it took me to write this :)

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  11. It would be handy to have "select" align underneath "from" like it does in visual studio. I often find myself tabbing code around to align it, but in visual studio its automatic alignment seems more natural.

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  12. Currently if I instant share something, and want to make a small change, then I have to create new instant shares each time. Perhaps a simple solution is for linqpad to create a "shared" folder, inside that are files named according to the bitly styled instant share 38dHLx.linq etc. If I delete anything in that folder, then you (linqpad website) can delete the corresponding instant share, if I press control+u when inside a file thats an instant share, it should update? This will avoid linqpad having to create a whole web CRUD interface around "manging" my shares, or, reproducing GIST…

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  13. When writing queries against a Teradata ObjectContext, the Results, Lambda and IL views all work as expected, by the SQL view returns nothing. It'd be really handy to have this working, and shouldn't be too hard to implement as simple workarounds already exist. (Just cast a LINQ statement to ObjectQuery and call ToTraceString() on the result - http://developer.teradata.com/blog/dsakai/2010/11/retrieving-the-sql-generated-by-the-entity-provider-for-teradata)

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  15. should take about a minute to add this. I would use it all the time

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  16. I mostly find that I need to filter by the primary key id. It would be handy to have a quick way of inserting the primary id name.

    Perhaps a shortcut key, or perhaps even just putting the primary id at the top of the drop down autocomplete.

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  17. It's now at:

    %programfiles(x86)%\Microsoft SDKs\F#\3.1\Framework\v4.0

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  18. Current if there are overloads of methods, we cannot distinguish them from IL. Please learn from other tools e.g. ILSPY and show method signatures (parameter types) and return types.

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  19. Possibility to copy/paste the error message, when a connection to a dbcontext is unsuccessful

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  20. Integrated GUI builder

    If we had a GUI designer for win-forms (or similar) then small applications could be built. Things like combo-boxes, buttons, and standard controls with event handlers would be great.

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