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  1. Support Oracle SQL tab!
    Debug the sql statement generated by EF with oracle,please!

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  2. be able to set a breakpoint in VS, and be able to transfer a collection that was created into the linqpad workspace. Quite often a collection is created after doing quite a bit of work in the way of web service calls, db queries etc... once all of this info has been gathered together in a collection in a running program, it would be awesome to then query that collection at a VS breakpoint.

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  3. When prototyping idea's I find the C# expression really useful but it would be even better if I could write more than one without having to call dump myself as per c# statements.

    Linqpad could take each line as an expression and evaluate & dump them 1 at a time

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  4. Include an option so that the new 'new tab' button can operate like ctrl+shift+N rather than ctrl+N.

    More oftent than not I will have multiple tabs open on the same DB

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  5. When writing multi-statements I keep rerunning what I wrote to see if I am on track. However, to actually see what is the result/response/value of the last thing I wrote, I keep adding ".Dump()" to last item, and then remove it and continue to the next statement.

    I think LinqPad should automatically dump the last statement (as an option). Moreover, it might be nice to be also configured something like "Only auto-dump if nothing else is dumped in the query".

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  6. The connection tree view currently defaults to using dbo as the top level schema to display. For databases that have other schemas, you have to scroll down and expand them. For some databases this is a pain, because the schema that I work in isn't dbo. It would be useful to be able to define a default schema for each connection.

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  7. xx.InsertOnSubmit()
    xx.DeleteOnSubmit()
    SubmitChanges()

    and other basic LINQPad advertised as replacement for SQL Management for daily tasks should autocomplete even on the free version for users to get an idea of how well the autocomplete is working.

    For example it could be enabled only on LINQ entities and that SubmitChanges(). All other objects should show no auto-complete and on manual autocomplete request an informative buy upgrade message.

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  8. It would be great to have VB syntax auto formatting like in Visual Studio. VB is a case insensitive language (which is what makes it so appealing to lazy people like me) and I often use the syntax auto-formatting when I type as a quick check that I wrote the right syntax.

    ex: I type:
    dim V as double
    v = 10

    and it becomes
    Dim V as Double
    V = 10

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  9. I find myself using LINQpad more and more to test expressions from our projects. It would be nice to have more control to take the 'tweak' out of the copy/paste/tweak process. For example, when I copy an expression from code to linkpad I have to find/replace "db." with "" to remove our context variable references. It would be great if LINQPad could understand that "db." (or some other user defined alias) means the current context.

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  10. In Visual Studio you can select "blocks" of text using the arrow keys while holding down both the ALT and SHIFT keys. This is really useful and I hope it gets implemented

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  11. Create a .Net component version of this program. To use with asp.net and winform apps.

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  12. Would be great if instead of opening like so in SSMS:

    Executed Sql Query:
    Query: SELECT ... AND ( [LPA_L3].[SomeColumn] = @p1)
    Parameter: @p1 : Guid. Length: 0. Precision: 0. Scale: 0. Direction: Input. Value: 52d87c12-e610-43f8-bdc1-7aee15b19a78

    It commented out comments and set variable values
    --Parameter: @p1 : Guid. Length: 0. Precision: 0. Scale: 0. Direction: Input. Value: 52d87c12-e610-43f8-bdc1-7aee15b19a78
    SET @p1 = '52d87c12-e610-43f8-bdc1-7aee15b19a78';

    --Executed Sql Query:
    -- Query:
    SELECT ... AND ( [LPA_L3].[SomeColumn] = @p1)

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  13. Having the possibility to do a massive modification on connections (ie : modify the dll containing the EDMx file path or change server address on many connections in one hit)

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  14. It would be great if the Connection Node would offer an "Count all Tables" option which iterates over all Tables and adds the Row Count behind the Table Name in the Tree View. Would be great when taking first looks into new Databases (e.g. SQLite Databases).

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  15. I have a query, if I accidently hit F4 and F5 at around the same time... The query properties comes up, the query runs, and I can no longer click to dismiss the modal.

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  16. 3 votes
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  17. 3 votes
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  18. Using Navigate To (Control+,), allow us to type name of connection as well and if we select it, it automatically makes a new query against that connection. I'm pretty much 'mouse' free on LINQPad except for this scenario.

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  19. Sometimes when I start up a new query, I type a single C# expression like "Environment.OSVersion" and then hit run. It doesn't execute instantly and I look at the status bar and see "Fetching Schema...". Then I see that LINQPad automatically assumed that I was going to use the connection I used last time I wrote a query and added it for me. Although this may be useful for someone who uses LINQPad exclusively for querying a single database, this is annoying for others who use it as a C# scratchpad or frequently query different data sources.

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  20. For using LinqPAD for everyday work it would be extremely helpful to have a file association set to open .sdf-Files with LinqPAD directly. Up to now I do not think this is possible. Maybe you could consider a command line option to pass a filename (or connection string) to LinqPAD at start - this would be perfectly sufficient for us by enabling us to write a wrapper providing the desired functionality.

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