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  1. It would be great if the Ctrl+E SSMS shortcut would be enabled as an alternative to F5. It's easier to reach and makes sense (E for Execute).

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  2. Provide more information about thrown exceptions (dump message, stack trace, etc).

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  3. Since hitting Esc doesn't seem to trigger any other action, it would be useful for those of us with muscle memory to hit it when we accidentally ran something we shouldn't have. Much faster/simpler than the 2-key combo of Shift-F5. :)

    I'm not trying to ask for the larger-scope 'allow remapping keyboard shortcuts', just the Escape key. :)

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  4. The UniversalStaticDriver class does not detect the properties of the customType parameter that are directly of type IEnumerable<T>. If the customType inherits IEnumerable<T> (like say via IList<T>) then the property is detected. But if the property is actually declared as IEnumerable<T> then it is passed over.

    I changed the line that declared ienumerableOfT from:

                let ienumerableOfT = prop.PropertyType.GetInterface ("System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1")
                where ienumerableOfT != null
    

    to

                let ienumerableOfT = (prop.PropertyType.GetGenericTypeDefinition() == typeof(IEnumerable<>) ? prop.PropertyType : null)
                                    ?? prop.PropertyType.GetInterface("System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1") 
    

    Kinda hacky, but it fixed the problem for me. Probably a better solution would be to recurse through the type and all inherited types…

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  5. Line numbers are present in a beta release , but only for new Query windows and not when viewing/editing Stored Procs in a DB.

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  6. If i work o X DB i have lightred, but i i work on Y DB i work on limegreen editor

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  7. Obviously, features new to 1.7 (and later) will not be available as LinqPad seems to reference the 1.1 version. Also, I've been having this issue:

    Assembly 'MyAssembly, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' uses 'Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient, Version=1.7.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' which has a higher version than referenced assembly 'Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient, Version=1.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35'

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  8. The menu item for "Copy for Markdown/Stack Overflow" ends up copying code that in most cases won't compile without manual intervention by the person who grabs it off of Stack Overflow.

    Specifically, these two things is on the query options tab, and has to be manually added for the query code to compile and execute:

    • References
    • Using directives

    It would be nice if those two things could be copied alongside the query code, for instance as specially crafted comments at the top, that would be recognized by LINQPad upon pasting back into it, and moved to the appropriate places.

    ie.

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  9. When the code fragment is selected and then F5 is pressed, LINQPad runs only selected code. I think this feature is nice.
    When I choose "C# Program" mode, of course I write some utility codes outside the Main() method.
    However, when I select the fragment of code in the Main() and press F5, the build fails, since the definitions outside the Main() wasn't included as "compile target codes".

    I think that the codes outside Main() method (in C# / VB Program mode) should be always included in compile targets to enable user-defined classes and methods,
    even if the code fragment…

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  10. There are a few assemblies I often use in LinqPad queries, that are not in the GAC or on Nuget. Every time, I have to browse to their location to find them (e.g. Windows.winmd to use WinRT APIs). It would be nice if there was a "recently used" list in the "Additional references" tab

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  11. I keep coming back to LINQPad to write few lines, execute ...verify, then go back to implement the small bit I just wrote and I am sure everyone does that and some would save those random scratch for later use or reference. So I wonder, why not a code snippet share feature directly from LINQPad? It would increase awareness and allow us share or persist some of the quick code written every now and then.

    Cheers.
    Biniam

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  12. The debugger in LINQPad 4.5 is awesome, but not as good as Visual Studio's. Before the beta, I was using Debugger.Launch/Break to debug in VS. Now, those launch LINQPad's debugger. Unless and until the debugger is as good as VS's, I would like some kind of button or something (as long as it's faster than using the preferences) to use an external debugger.

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  13. Linqpad doesn't work very well if the underlying columns in an Oracle database contain TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE columns.

    These appear in the datacontext as DateTime (losing the offset information), however queries using equality checks against them can fail due to the way the underlying IQDriver handles (or otherwise) the conversion back to datetime offset within Oracle.

    It's a bit of a pain, but one of the simple approaches is to ensure the generated SQL wraps those columns in either sysextractutc(theColumn) or 'theColumn AT TIME ZONE xxxx' to ensure they are compared with the DateTime parameter that is…

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  14. I would like to be able to create a "My Extensions"-like file per folder so that I can create contexts or extension code that are shared by all of the queries in that folder.

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  17. The FSharp compiler macro 'SOURCE_DIRECTORY' doesn't seem to behave as expected in linqpad - specifically it points to a linqpad temporary execution directory, and not where the .linq file itself resides.

    This makes it problematic to use F# type providers within linqpad. Referring to data files relative to the script is pretty common, but the path supplied to a type provider has to be a compile-time literal - ie Util.CurrentQueryPath can't be used. Absolute paths obviously break across machines.

    Not sure if a fix even is possible (I can't see anywhere on the F# compiler where you can…

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  18. When you use Open in Excel on a grid, the Excel (html) file that is opened is named after the query name, but should be named after the Grid title from the Dump command that created the Grid, if one exists.

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  19. Add optional parameter to Util.Cmd that will accept a parameter so alternate success exit codes can be defined. Currently only 0 is acceptable as a success, but some apps use alternate exit codes.

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  20. It would be nice if we could be able to turn off the Dump of the Unhandeled exceptions, or Change the Default Handler from LINQPad on the 'AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException'.

    I have not found any way of turning this off without actually using reflection to fetch, and de-register the default, and then re-register my own implementation (it works, but it's buggy).

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