NetPad 0.12.0

What's new in 0.12.0

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This release brings performance improvements, a major CLI update, new features for managing data
connections, and a large number of bug fixes and stability improvements.
🎯 A special thanks to @antonkesy and @wuuer for their contributions in this release.
What's New 🚀
Database Server Connections
You can now add a database server to the connections list and select one or more databases from that
server. All databases under a server share the same connection and scaffolding options, so you only
configure things once. Server connections are supported for SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and
MariaDB.
Script Performance Improvements
Script startup and re-run speed was improved:
- Compilation results are cached so unchanged re-runs skip compilation entirely.
- Nuget dependency graphs and script dependencies are cached so resolution only occurs when needed.
- Framework assembly dependency cache is pre-warmed on a background thread at startup.
- Other similar optimizations for quicker re-runs.
.NET SDK Detection Improvements
NetPad now discovers all valid .NET installations on your system (user settings, environment
variables, user-level, system-level, PATH) and aggregates SDKs and runtimes from each. Previously,
only the first valid installation was used. When running a script, the correct dotnet executable
is resolved based on which installation contains the target framework's SDK.
User Interface
- Statusbar background color now changes to indicate script status (running, error, etc.), with
unified status colors throughout the app.
- A context menu was added to the scripts explorer sidebar.
- Added separators between editor tabs and added tree nesting indicators in the explorer pane for
better visual hierarchy.
- When text is selected in the editor, the statusbar now shows the number of selected chars (or
lines).
- Style run/stop buttons with colored tints and flatten save/properties to icon buttons.
- Change open folder icons in scripts explorer to blue to indicate expanded state.
- Increase global border-radius for a softer look across all components.
- Better background colors for input controls.
- Add toolbar dividers to group action icons where needed.
- Reduced prominence of toolbar labels (SDK, Kind, etc.) for a cleaner look.
- Add more contrast to pane toolbar background.
- Switch package reference buttons to outline style for less visual noise. …

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