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  1. Auto-update at time of install

    When installing LINQPad (6), it would be good for the installer to, either during or post, run a hidden instance that preforms the auto-update.

    For those of us who package it in SCCM, this would be of significant benefit.

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  2. Support any file type in the editor tabs and query explorer.

    For example JSON/XML/CSV/Excel data used for testing out a snippet or library.
    Just for the overall convenience... and when you get back 6 months later and look for the input data!

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  3. Allow Database connection panel to be closed

    Most of my LINQPad scripts do not use a database connection... so I'd like to be able to set a preference to close the connection panel (top left).

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  4. Output LINQ/C# text as a comment into the generated SQL

    SQL Server keeps track of all queries, including the text. Sometimes queries don't work as expected (timeout, errors, etc.) but sometimes it's also very useful to have a record of everything that is done as a log. I see the generated SQL. I'd like to know the C# that was entered into the query window. As an option, could you add this as a comment?

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  5. Add option to format document on save

    Have a setting to format document on save.
    In visual studio I use codemaid and whenever I save files it formats them.
    Would be nice as one of those menu elements with a checkmark beside them.

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  6. Please add a mode to the Output panel to render Markdown that is emitted from code.

    I like to format error messages and other output with Markdown to make it easier to create reports from code (I typically use LinqPad to free-hand test code and apply weird edge cases or explorer difficult bugs). Seein my output properly formatted will help me and my clients visual what their code is doing. And adding support to render PlantUML would also rock.

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  7. Laundy list of desired features:

    Laundry list of desired features:

    1. Export Query to Dotnet SDK Project.
    2. Import / Export CSX (C# Script) Files
    3. Incorporate the C# Interactive Runtime and add immediate window, Like Visual Studio. Would be a huge help during debugging.
    4. Add Unit Test Management with support for MSTest, nUnit and xUnit projects.
    5. Seriously consider adding a Report Builder. LinqPad is already 75% of the way to replacing MS Access. This could put the nail in the coffin for MS Access.
    4 votes
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  8. LinqPad on MAUI

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  9. Show .cs files in the "My Queries" file tree and allow viewing .cs files

    Show .cs files in the "My Queries" file tree and allow viewing .cs files

    This allows us to quickly view and grab code from .cs files and paste it in a query for testing.

    This increases productivity as we do not have to resort to another editor to view the file and copy contents from other app.

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  10. Improve debugging text variables

    LINQPad is currently very not great at debugging anything with text.
    - There is no way to set line endings to Unix vs. Windows
    - When I paste text with Unix line endings, LINQPad silently modifies my strings to use Windows newlines. Boo!
    - There is no way to see line endings, because they are not shown in the debugger, even with "dump", so when writing string parsing code, my counts are just mysteriously off, more with every line.
    - The debugger "VALUES" column uses a variable-width font, so it is hard to compare values at a glance because even…

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  11. Word-wrap keyboard toggle command

    Add shortcut for enabling/disabling word wrap to match Visual Studio Code's Alt+Z toggle word-wrap command.

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  12. Fix a bug where custom LinqPad drivers cannot be found on Nexus and Azure DevOps NuGet feeds

    Hi,

    I have written a custom linqpad driver and published it to our internal NuGet feed.
    In the past there were no problems installing this driver.

    After updating out Nexus OSS server to the latest version, the driver cannot be found anymore.
    I get the same behaviour on our Azure DevOps Feed.

    So I did some debugging and found out, that the filtering of the tags is pretty weird across the existing NuGet servers.

    When searching for custom drivers, LinqPad creates the following url:
    ...v3/query/beta?q=tags:linqpaddriver%20&skip=0&take=40&prerelease=false&semVerLevel=2.0.0
    The filtering is applied via "tags:linqpaddriver%20"

    Here my problems begin...
    The nexus server does not…

    4 votes
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  13. Allow enumerating or traversing the differences returned by the Util.Dif

    The result of Util.Dif can currently (v 8.6.6) be only checked as whole by the "IsSame" property, or dumped in the output window.

    It would be useful to be able to traverse the differences programmatically.

    The diff tree already exists and is visible in Debugger view, but all the classes are internal and not easily accessible.

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  14. Add an "all files" option when browsing to open a SQL CE database

    Our SQL CE database does not use a standard extension. We use a custom one so we can associate it with our application. I can simply rename the file when I want to use LINQpad with it, but it would be much easier if I were allowed to open a file with any extension as a SQL CE database. I would also be able to use LINQpad to view that database while our application is running, which is sometimes necessary.

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  15. Haskell

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  16. Remove online activation

    Resharper provides a user friendly copy protection and LINQPad should do so too. Please.

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  17. Create a WPF UI

    Self-explanatory, replace the Win Forms UI with a WPF UI or allow users to choose which one to download.

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  18. Enhance autocomplete to allow listing only Properites, Methods, etc.

    Add autocomplete options to only list properties, methods, events, etc.

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  19. Add Table Name to Tab

    It would be nice to have the tab name be the name of the table when running the pre-defined right-click queries instead of query n.

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  20. maximun result less than 1000

    Hello, select less than 1000 like 100 results etc... thanks

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