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  1. I find this feature very convenient in Powershell. it would just mean not having to select the line before executing it.

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  2. can't cannect with many db in the single instance.

    timeout error when populating on the tree list

    it's a good idea select the db first to begin to work.
    so the tree list will populated only with the selected db

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  3. I create lots of Linqpad queries. Many times I have a question in my mind while coding. To answer I try something out in LINQPad and save my query somewhere in my directory tree.
    Some months later I have the same (or a similar) question but can't find my query because there are lots of them.
    I suggest you add a search index. It would make it easier to find old queries just from parts of the filename or query contents.

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  4. Make code snippets consistent with Visual Studio

    For example C# 'prop' snippet

    Visual Studio:

    public int MyProperty { get; set; }

    LINQPad:

    public object Foo { get; set; }

    int or object is discussable but MyProperty is so much more recognizable than Foo.
    For consistency just stick with Visual Studio definitions (which means int here).

    Using different content for the snippets is confusing when accustomed to Visual Studio.

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  5. Quickly Generate "API" for each tab so that you can execute other tabs easily.

    Treat each tab as it's own exportable API/Library that can be executed by other tabs.

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  6. This should be a preset thing. This would enable LinqPad to be used as a scripting editor as well.

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  8. add a command to refresh snippets to save having to close and reopen LINQPad when editing snippets.

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  9. create something similar to the sql server query designer.

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  10. I'm making a Context Driver for a DB2 relational database, and I found that setting the ExplorerItem.Hyperlink makes the appropriate item (Column) look like a hyperlink. If I click on it nothing happens. If I expand the referenced ExplorerItem's Parent (table) then scroll back up and click on hyperlink it works as expected.

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  11. Linqpad does a nice job of rendering byte[] buffers (as hex), but truncates the display after like 20 bytes or so.

    I'd be nice if when it did this the display was hyperlinked so you could click on the 'byte[]' and get a popup with the full* buffer displayed.

    (I need to compare bytes-on-the-wire with what the application did/didn't manage to parse, and hacking this kind of popup in the query itself is painful)

    • within reason. First few kb would be enough in most cases.
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  12. COBOL programming (relative and index file organizations think of the fun!) would be great - but I'll be surprised if it is implemented.
    The Idea being to make LinqPad into the first choice as an educational program tool.

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  13. I'm deploying a tool to (technical) end users that uses linqpad as the UI. Before they can user it, we first have to tell them how to configure our internal nuget server.

    I'd be great if there was a simple convention for discovering local nuget server(s), so this didn't have to be done manually.

    I'm thinking of something a simple as - for domain-joined PCs - a probe to a server called 'nuget' (ie using the same DNS suffix), that just checks if it's responds validly using the nuget API. This could be a 'prompt on first install' action (or…

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  14. I always rename connections so they have a meaningful names and I also use the create similar connection. Unfortunatly, this feature also copy the name and to figure out which of the two I should rename, having a tool-tip with the connection details would greatly help.

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  15. I'd like to be able to run queries against a JSON structure (e.g. pull all the orders out > 24 hours old or show status of customers). Right now I take my json save it in a folder e.g. C:\inputdata.txt and then have an extension method in Linqpad that loads from that text file. it would be great if I could dump text into linqpad directly and reference it within my various queries

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  16. When I use "Help on Current Type/Member", LINQPad harnesses Google to search for the specified information. Unfortunately, Google is currently blocked in my country. Can you add a feature to LINQPad so I can switch the search engine to Bing, Baidu, etc?

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  17. When searching for nugets from standard edition, a dialog is displayed saying you can only search for packages that contain linqpad samples.

    That dialog shows an error icon, not a warning icon, which seems like the wrong semantics (it's a warning of limited functionality, not an error that something doesn't work). It'd be good if the text started with 'Warning:' also.

    I know this looks like splitting hairs, but this just genuinely confused an end-user, who assumed my instructions were wrong.

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  19. Recently, I needed to combine lots of single row inserts SQL statements into multi-row insert statements, which involved removing the semi-colon at the end of each single insert, a commit, and the following insert statement up to the actual values of the insert, which spanned 5 text lines in the script I was writing. With a multiline find-replace tool this would be easy. With the find-replace tool only being able to operate on one line at a time this is much harder.

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  20. Licensing page currently indicates "three activations for virtual machines running VMWare, MS Virtual PC, Hyper-V, Azure Roles, or Azure VMs".

    Would it be possible to add Parallels Desktop for Mac to this list? I'm a single user with a Premium license and I already use my desktop licenses on my three PCs. Nothing left to use on my Mac Win10 VM under Parallels. :(

    Thanks!

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