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  1. My "my extension" is so bloated now. It has so many classes and methods now. I would like to separate them to individual files (class level) and store them in a specific folder ("My Extensions" folder?) and then all the classes and method will appear in all other queries.....

    On a larger level, this brings the concept of projects (or solution). Perhaps we can extend this idea to have a folders marked as a projects, so when running queries this will build all the queries in that folder to same assembly so that it is possible to call methods from…

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  2. LINQPad is so gangster.

    Add support for (iron)python

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  3. I have the potential to work from multiple PC's It would be great if the license could be tied to a USB stick or something, this was i can add it to my portable apps collection.

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  4. Maybe lprun.exe can be more easily adapted to run cross-platform than the full GUI app. It would be fantastic to just be able to run scripts via Mono.

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  5. It would be very nice if there was the single snippet IDE for LINQ, SQL and XSLT. Architag XRay XML Editor is good for XSLT, but just not as good (ergonomic) as LINQPad is for LINQ.

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  6. When calling Dump() on a typle with named elements, the output columns are "Item1", "Item2", etc. instead of the actual names.

    Example:

    var names = new List<(int Id, string First, string Last)>();

    ...

    Actual output:

    Item1 Item2 Item3
    1 Alice Cooper
    2 Bob Hope

    Expected / desired output:

    Id First Last
    1 Alice Cooper
    2 Bob Hope

    36 votes
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  7. 1) Ignore - ignore field/property/class in the dumped tree
    Example:
    public class AggregatedError
    {
    public string Name { get; private set; }

          [DumpOptions(Options.Ignore)]
          public string[] Files { get; private set; }
    

    }
    will not display Files property.

    2) NotExpanded - do not expand collection by default
    Example:
    public class AggregatedError
    {
    public string Name { get; private set; }

          [DumpOptions(Options.NotExpanded)]
          public string[] Files { get; private set; }
    

    }
    will display Files as a collection, but will not expand its by default

    3) ToString - display object as string
    Example:
    [DumpOptions(Options.ToString)]
    public class AggregatedError
    {
    public override string ToString()
    {…

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  8. It would be great if LP could support source control integration using the SCC-compatible source control interface (Ex. Beyond Compare 3).

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  9. Would be nice to be able to use LINQPad to test WCF Data Services with the ability to set HTTP Request Header variables as part of the connection settings. That way we could simulate passing a value like an API Key in the Header.

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  10. Allow user to specify search provider - Bing.

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  11. It would be great to be able to print source (and output) from linqpad.

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  12. In the additional namespace imports I put "using Outlook = Microsoft....Outlook".

    When I'm in a call that wants something of that namespace, replace the full entry with just the alias Outlook.

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  13. Some multi-line strings are easier to read in a fixed width font; these are hard to read in LINQPad today.

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  14. Would like to see LINQPad able to access OAuth secured Odata services.

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  15. In order to drop SQL Management Studio completely, more sql management features are needed.

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  16. When your prototypical scripts evolve, you may want clean them up a bit by renaming variables, methods and classes to match their new/changed responsibilities. As find/replace is error prone, such a rename refactoring support would be neat.

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  17. Since linqpad 6 has been migrated to dotnet core, would it be possibile to provide an Linux build?

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  18. When I start up linqpad, it's always to use the same database (the database of the product I work on), but by default it lists "no connection". Rather than constantly making me set the connection, it would be nice to be able to flag one as the default connection (similar to a default printer).

    Another option would be to default the connection to whatever was last used (this would be as effective for me since I'm always using the same one).

    Yet another option would be that if there's only one connection defined in the Connections window, default to that…

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  19. SQL Server Management Studio has a Parse (Ctrl-F5) feature under the Query menu vs. Execute (F5); and Visual Studio has a Build Solution vs. Start Debugging (F5). Both of these options allow you to check for syntax or compile errors without executing the query or running the program. I was surprised not to find this feature in LINQPad also. This would be a very useful feature to me. I hope we could see it in an upcoming release. Thanks, I love LINQPad!

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  20. Automatically create entities based on synonyms just like it currently does for views and stored procedures.

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