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  1. Would be cool to write a linpad script and then have a menu option to publish as Azure WebJob, preferably with a scheduling mechanism.

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  2. Apparently LINQPad is unable to correctly resolve the extension method if it is available either in the same or sub-namespace.

    E.g. .net-4.7.1 has recently added the Append extension. I had an extension with the same signature in my own library.

    Even though my extension uses the namespace System.Linq.Custom it does not work in LINQPad. There are no problems with it in Visual Studio and there the compiler picks my extension.

    This looks like a bug to me.

    The exact error message is:

    CS0121 The call is ambiguous between the following methods or properties: 'System.Linq.Enumerable.Append<TSource>(System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<TSource>, TSource)' and 'System.Linq.Custom.EnumerableExtensions.Append<T>(System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<T>, T)'

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  3. I use LinqPad to share data through email all the time. Currently the best way to do this is to export to HTML file, load the file, copy to clipboard, paste to Outlook as email.

    Could you add a "Export to clipboard as HTML" option to Export drop down menu that would just put the data you are saving to a file on the clipboard?

    Or add an "Export to clipboard as HTML" to the ▶ menu on each Dump (same drop down as View in Grid, Toggle all graph columns)

    7 votes
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  4. It would be nice to be able to edit the appsettings.json file, directly from the query properties windows (F4), comparable to the app.config editor in LINQPad 5/4

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  5. In the Samples tab, add previous C# version samples. For example:
    What's New in C# 7.3, 7.2, 7.1
    What's New in C# 6.0
    etc...

    Many times, I reference your samples to help 'jog my memory' for syntax and when/where C# language features were introduced.

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  6. It would be great if all trailing whitespace in the query document is removed when saving the file. LINQPad seems to add lots of erroneous whitespace. Eg. if you're working in an indented code block and hit enter multiple times, the empty lines all have erroneous whitespace.

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  7. LinqPad results window has export options for Word, Excel and HTML. It would be helpful to invoke these from the LinqPad query, maybe as a method in the Util function.

    Example:
    Util.ExportResults(string ExportFileName, ExportType TypeOfExport);
    Util.ExportResults(@"c:\MyExport.html", ExportType.HTML);

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  8. I write a lot of Dump(), to output variables temporarily, and finally remove them.
    It would be nice to turn on/off a Dump() without edit code.

    Please highlight the Dump() method, swith to DumpOff() when double click it, and output nothing.

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  9. It would be nice to have the Entity Framework 6 driver back in Linqpad 6, since EF6 now also targets netstandard 2.1.

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  10. Pin scripts - like chrome tabs.

    I use 4 keys scripts to do my job every day. Every day I need to open these and order them how I like. Great if I could pin them like Chrome tabs

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  11. The VsVim Visual Studio extension honours the "set relativenumber" instruction in _vimrc. It causes the current line to show the absolute line number, and all other lines are numbered relative to it.

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    584 // TODO: Removing this line breaks the app. We don't know why...
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    Something similar in LINQPad would be a lovely tweak!

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  12. Would be great to add in support for .http/.rest files the same as they've done for VS and VS Code
    This would help make LinqPad a great playground for producing and consuming data going through rest services for test and development

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  13. Conversations with AI Assistant can be very useful. I want to save the whole conversation as Markdown file which is a native format of Assistant's responses. Copying individual sections is tedious, would be good to have a button to save all conversation in default location with suggested file name.

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  14. Would be nice if LINQPad would have the ability to turn of Dump() output as an run option, to speed up execution.
    An advanced featrue would be to flag Dump() statements with and option like DEBUG, VERBOSE etc. to allow switching part of the output on and of as needed.

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  15. Add an additional tab along side the Samples and My Queries tabs that will house and organize my custom snippets. From there I need to be able to drag and drop the snippet into whatever current Linq sheet I am working on. This would save a lot of repetitive typing doing ad-hoc queries.

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  16. Currently if I have a base class with name and age, then inherit from that to add address. Then create a list of these objects, the output is the reverse of what is expected. I would expect the base class members to be first in the results but they are actually last. Example:
    void Main()
    {
    var p = new List<Person>();

    p.Add(new Person{ Name = "Joe", Age = 25, Address = "Someplace in Australia."});

    p.Add(new Person{ Name = "Ben", Age = 30, Address = "Someplace in Australia."});

    p.Dump();
    }

    class PersonBase
    {
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public…

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  17. 6 votes
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  18. Fairly self explanatory. If a CLR Stored Procedure is defined on a database, I should be able to call it from LinqPad. As of now, they don't show up in the tree and I can't call it directly.

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  19. When working with OData data services, it would be nice to have the option of viewing the raw HTTP responses (including headers and HTTP response codes)

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  20. Great stuff, I'm using it to test a REST service - but it requires a querystring parameter for the apikey. It would be great to have a collection of querystring params that are appended to the url.

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