The Drive to Develop

How often do you reach for a profiler? Only when things go wrong, right? All too often, we use profilers only as a last resort, even though dotTrace and dotMemory are both pleasant to work with. What if we told you that Dynamic Program Analysis (DPA) in ReSharper automatically analyzes the memory usage of your applications and helps catch difficult-to-diagnose memory allocation issues before we deploy them to production. Because we all know an unhappy user is an unhappier developer, let's see how DPA can keep us happy! Why is DPA important? Memory allocation issues are the most difficult to ca

An important part of writing code is debugging. Despite the name this is not limited to just finding bugs in our code, but can help us to understand what the code is actually doing at runtime - often in a specific environment. While it's possible to do this to some extent using, so-called, "printf-debugging" (inserting code to write out messages and values to the console or a log file), that process is tedious, time-consuming, and very limited. Using a debugger well can make an order of magnitude difference in productivity at this stage - so it would be a shame not to learn our debugging tools

PhpStorm 2020.2.3, a bug-fix update for v2020.2, is now available! You can update to it using the Toolbox App or right from inside the IDE. You can also download PhpStorm 2020.2.3 from our website. (more…)

Earlier in September, we began the 2020.3 Early Access Program for CLion which introduces the following enhancements: CTest support An action to set execution point in the debugger Initial portion of MISRA C and C++ checks Clang completion snippets More Makefile projects support Today the new 2020.3 EAP build for CLion is available! Here is a brief overview of the highlights you will find in this new EAP version: Improved Google Test support. Recompile single file is now available for Makefile projects. Enhancements for Qt projects: code completion for Qt signals and slots, Q

IntelliJ Platform Plugin Template IntelliJ Platform Plugin Template, our GitHub-based repository, provides a pure boilerplate to make it easier to create a new plugin project. It delivers curated solutions for handling the changelog and supporting Kotlin and Java sources, and provides preconfigured GitHub Actions that take care of plugin quality and deployment. Learn more here: IntelliJ Platform Plugin Template. SDK Docs content updates We’ve added several new reference pages and tutorials to our SDK Docs, including: Settings Disposer and Disposable Marketing All plugin code samples are als

A valuable part of the debugging experience is experimentation, modifying variables and determining whether the outcomes were what we expected. With the latest release of Rider 2020.3 EAP, we're happy to give developers more tools that make debugging more effective. As you may have guessed from the title of this post, the Immediate Window is shipping in Rider 2020.3 EAP. What is the Immediate Window? The immediate window offers a way to access the code of our application while it is being executed. While debugging, we can write additional code that can add to or alter the current code executio

Hi everyone, The new AppCode 2020.3 EAP build is available for download from our site. Localization You can now localize strings easily in Swift code using the Localize string intention, which automatically generates NSLocalizedString and adds a key-value pair to the .strings file: NSLocalizedString statements are folded by default in the code editor: Navigation allows you to jump from code to the localization key-value pair via ⌘B. In addition, the context menu option for creating the .strings file is available in the Project view’s context menu. Debugger AppCode now displays the current

The third build of our Early Access Program for PhpStorm 2020.3 is now available! In this blog post we’ll cover a number of IDE updates: Search Everywhere improvements. Split the editor with drag and drop. One more way to split the editor. Switch to light or dark theme automatically. System shortcut keymap for macOS. Plugins enabled per project. Download PhpStorm 2020.3 EAP (more…)

WebStorm 2020.3 EAP build #4 is now available! In addition to downloading this build and trying the latest enhancements, we’d like to ask you to do something special this time. (more…)

In this blog, we're going to look at how to create an IntelliJ IDEA project from existing code in a GitHub repository. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBVOAnygcZw This blog post covers the same material as the video with some additional tips and tricks. This provides an easy way for people to skim the content quickly if they prefer reading to watching, and to give the reader/watcher code samples and links to additional information. Clone a GitHub Repository to Our Local Machine The first thing we need to do is to clone the git repository to our local machine. In the video, we used this Intelli

Hello! We've got something new for you in this fresh EAP build. Azure AD authentication The DataGrip community has been asking for this for a while! You can now use Azure AD to log in to your database. Collect introspection diagnostic information Introspection is the process by which DataGrip retrieves information about a database. This information is used to show the objects in the database explorer, display their DDLs, suggest them during completion, and so on. Sometimes introspection runs into problems. Now, when things go wrong, you can collect useful data that you can pass on t

IntelliJ IDEA 2020.3 EAP4 is out. In this EAP, you will get a sneak peek into the Java-related updates, discover what’s new for LightEdit mode, and learn how we are planning to support the Kotlin plugin. As always, you are welcome to test out all the new features. You can download the new EAP from our website, install it using the free Toolbox App, or update to this latest EAP using snaps if you’re an Ubuntu user. LightEdit improvements We introduced LightEdit mode in v2020.1 as a handy built-in lightweight text editor that you can use without leaving IntelliJ IDEA. Since then, we’ve been po