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  1. Add support to paste clipboard JSON as classes

    It would be great if LINQPad could create classes from a JSON object in the clipboard (Just like the WebEssentials extension for VisualStudio can do)

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  2. Show the number of rows returned by query

    In the results panel, it would be useful to display the number of records returned by the query.

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  3. Remember splitter position

    It is very annoying to have to reposition the query/results splitter for every new query. Can you make it persist to wherever it was last positioned?

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  4. Script references should be relative instead of absolute

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  5. Use LINQPad to author Azure Functions

    Right within LINQPad, enable 1. Azure login; 2. Connect/browse Azure Queues and DocumentDB; and 3. Author Azure Function CSX scripts, test, publish, and repeat.

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  6. Color.Blue.Dump() should include the actual colour in the results

    I'd love the default .Dump() for System.Drawing.Color (and any other colour related things like the ConsoleColor enum) to include a cell in the result output which contains their actual colour so that I can see it. LINQPad is so good for exploratory programming, dumping things out just to see what the result is, and this would improve it immensely for colours.

    Below is the extension function I wrote to achieve this for if anyone is interested. I would just love to see this in the main build by default.

    ///<summary>Custom formatter when dumping a <see cref="Color"/> which adds a row with the actual color

    /// in addition to the normally dumped output.</summary>

    public static Color Dump(this Color c)

    {

        using (var writer = Util.CreateXhtmlWriter())

        {

            writer.Write(c);

            var doc = XDocument.Parse(writer.ToString());

            //For some reason .Descendants() is not working here.

            doc.Root.Elements().ElementAt(1)

                .Elements().First()

                    .Elements().First()

                        .Elements().First()

                            .Elements().First()

                                .AddAfterSelf(new XElement("tr",

                                                new XElement("td",

                                                    new XAttribute("colspan", 2),

                                                    new XAttribute("bgcolor", ColorTranslator.ToHtml(c)),

                                                    new XAttribute("style", "height:15px"))));

            Util.RawHtml(doc.Root).Dump();

        }

        return c;

    }

    I'd love the default .Dump() for System.Drawing.Color (and any other colour related things like the ConsoleColor enum) to include a cell in the result output which contains their actual colour so that I can see it. LINQPad is so good for exploratory programming, dumping things out just to see what the result is, and this would improve it immensely for colours.

    Below is the extension function I wrote to achieve this for if anyone is interested. I would just love to see this in the main build by default.

    ///<summary>Custom formatter when dumping a <see cref="Color"/> which adds a row
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  7. Specify Display Size When Using Util.Image

    When dumping images to the output window, sometimes it would be nice to specify the maximum display size for the image, so that a large image doesn't fill up the entire results window causing much scrolling to get to anything below.

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  8. Allow results pane to be detached into a separate window

    It would be useful if the results pane could be detatched into a separate window for easier viewing.

    Since LINQPad now supports Programs as well Statements, the ability to make the most of screen real estate becomes more pertinent.

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  9. PLEASE stop the app from taking focus, when a query completes.

    PLEASE stop the app from taking focus, when a query completes. I often launch a query and move onto other tasks. However, when LINQPad completes a query execution, the app automatically resumes focus .. including the cursor / keyboard where I might have been (for example) authoring an email. MOST FRUSTRATING!

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  10. Add suport for using LINQPad for logparser queries

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  11. SQL Prompt

    SQL auto completion

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  12. A file-base "My Extensions"

    If a special file in the same folder as the opened .linq-file exists (for example "_Extensions.linq"), it should be loaded and executed before the query executes. Extension: Search the parent directories too for this file.

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  13. Include the current query name (if saved) to the title bar

    The time tracking software I use, TimeSprite, uses the window title to track time and assign to tasks. LINQPad always just shows as "LINQPAD" - but when a query is saved, including the file name in the title bar (like Word, Excel, etc. does) will let users identify the current query, and will facilitate time-tracking apps such as TimeSprite to assign queries to projects.

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  14. DB2 Support

    This great product offers support for so many database types, but the major one lacking is IBM DB2. You can do this through EF, but you will not be able to see the SQL that your linq queries generate.

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  15. Display triggers

    I would like the to be able to see triggers that are on tables. In the same way that I can look at the definitions of SPs and functions.

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  16. please support Console.ForegroundColor

    I use LinqPad for deployment scripts, and it would be really useful to be able to write error messages to the console in Red. Currently ForegroundColor does not work.

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  17. Add (Administrator) to the title bar if running with administrative privileges like Visual Studio

    It is helpful for me to see at a glance if the process I am using is elevated or not - as by default they are not. Here is some sample code I tested in LINQPad to test it under my Win7 environment:

    // using System.Security.Principal
    WindowsIdentity user = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent();
    WindowsPrincipal principal = new WindowsPrincipal(user);
    principal.IsInRole(WindowsBuiltInRole.Administrator).Dump();

    Discussion point: I don't know if any automation tools look for a title bar named LINQPad 4 - but changing it could introduce a breaking change for those folks. I imagine that changed from older versions (though I can't remember honestly). Maybe have it exposed as an advanced preference that can be toggled?

    It is helpful for me to see at a glance if the process I am using is elevated or not - as by default they are not. Here is some sample code I tested in LINQPad to test it under my Win7 environment:

    // using System.Security.Principal
    WindowsIdentity user = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent();
    WindowsPrincipal principal = new WindowsPrincipal(user);
    principal.IsInRole(WindowsBuiltInRole.Administrator).Dump();

    Discussion point: I don't know if any automation tools look for a title bar named LINQPad 4 - but changing it could introduce a breaking change for those folks. I imagine that changed from older versions (though I can't remember honestly). Maybe have it…

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  18. Allow pasting rows into Data Grid view in edit mode

    Sometimes when cleaning up, adding and editing data by hand, there can be an advantage in copying the cells from a query to excel.

    When you're done editing, it would be nice to be able to paste the data back in, in the edit mode.

    This is possible in Sql Server Management Studio

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  19. Automatically Update NuGet Packages

    It would be great if there was an option for each NuGet package in the LinqPad NuGet manager that allows you to set a package to auto update when a new version of the package is released.

    We connect LinqPad to internal NuGet packages and the consumers of these packages should always be up to date with the latest versions of our internal packages.

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  20. Dump() not generating navigation properties for large tables

    When querying a table with a large number of columns, navigation properties are not appended to the table.

    In particular, Table A I'm querying has 41 columns and does not produce the navigation properties.

    Table B with 29 columns does produce the navigation properties.

    We have a 1:Many (one table B for many table A). The link from TableB -> TableA does show, and it's not an issue with foreign keys, I suspect it's a hard limit we've crossed excluding the properties from generating

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