We’ve only just started the EAP for Rider 2020.2, but it’s already got plenty of goodies for Unity development. For example, we’ve done a huge amount of work to reduce memory overhead when parsing your assets, and Rider will now find usages and show Inspector values of more types, methods and fields, even inside prefab modifications! But today I’d like to introduce a new feature that we’re really excited about, a feature that you never knew you needed, but we think you’re going to love! We’re calling it a “pausepoint” and it’s a special kind of breakpoint that doesn’t stop the debugger i

We recently published the Rider 2020.2 roadmap, as well as the ReSharper C++ 2020.2 roadmap, and we’d now like to bring you up to speed with what we’ve got planned for ReSharper 2020.2 in .NET. As ever, please be aware that this list is preliminary. These are the broad areas we’re working on, and a list of our priorities, but things can change before release. With that disclaimer out of the way, let’s take a look at what’s coming! (more…)

Last time we talked about ReSharper out of process, we took a (very long!) look at the magnitude of the task. It’s a massively complex job, re-architecturing an application with 14 years worth of assumptions of COM based APIs into an asynchronous cross process model. That post details the complexity of moving the project model out of process - migrating from calling Visual Studio’s COM APIs on the UI thread, to using the MSBuild APIs in a separate process. This is now done, and has been the default way we manage the list of projects, files and references since ReSharper 2019.2. As we've

We recently posted our roadmap for ReSharper C++ 2020.1, as well as our roadmap for Rider 2020.1. Since we’ll be starting our Early Access Previews very soon, we'd also like to share our roadmap for ReSharper 2020.1. We'll also be talking about where we are with moving ReSharper out of process (although see this post for more details). Here are the top priorities that we’re currently working on. Some of these are themes for work that will see us through 2020, and not just for the 2020.1 release. So some of the things mentioned here won’t necessarily make it into ReSharper 2020.1. (more&

The recording of our January 16 webinar, How We Built Comma, the Raku IDE, on the IntelliJ Platform featuring Jonathan Worthington, is now available. Subscribe to our community newsletter to receive notifications about future webinars. This webinar tells the story of how Edument built an IDE for the Raku programming language using the IntelliJ Platform. Building an IDE from scratch would have been prohibitively expensive. By contrast, building on the IntelliJ Platform meant starting from a mature base, getting a great deal of generic IDE functionality for free, and therefore being able to f

Concluding our series of posts on the AWS Toolkit for Rider, let's take a look at Cloud Debugging of ECS services! In case you missed the earlier posts, the AWS Toolkit is a free plugin for Rider that provides support for AWS, with credential and region management, creation, local debugging and deploy of AWS Lambda functions and Cloud Debugging of .NET Core applications in ECS containers. Once enabled, you can use all of Rider's debugging features to debug your remote application, hosted inside ECS - everything from step in and out, advanced breakpoints to "pin to top". In this po

Let's continue our series on the new AWS Toolkit for Rider. As we saw last time, the AWS Toolkit is an open source plugin from AWS that makes it easier to work with .NET applications and AWS. It has several really useful features - credential and region management, AWS Lambda support and Cloud Debugging of ECS services. In this post, we'll take a look at AWS Lambda support, including credential and region management. (more…)

We have good news for anyone wanting to create C# serverless applications! We’ve been working with Amazon Web Services and are very pleased to announce the availability of the AWS Toolkit for Rider, a free, open source plugin for Rider that will help you build, test and deploy serverless applications for Amazon Web Services platform. You might already be familiar with the plugin from other JetBrains IDEs, as it was released for PyCharm and IntelliJ IDEA earlier this year, with support for Python and Java. This new release adds new features for these IDEs and adds support for C# in Rider, an

A little over a year ago, we ran a series of blog posts describing performance improvements we were making to ReSharper. We’ve delivered a lot of improvements in the releases since then, but we haven’t yet delivered on the big one - running ReSharper out of process. We thought it was about time we gave you an update on where we are. TL;DR: This isn’t an announcement post. We don’t have an ETA to share right now, although we have made significant progress on what is a massive problem. This post should give you an idea of the scale of the technical challenges we are working through in order to

In the latest EAP build of IntelliJ IDEA 2019.2 we’ve extracted Java functionality into a separate plugin. This separates the Java implementation from the “platform” part of IntelliJ IDEA and introduces some flexibility for the future. For example, we could include Java functionality as a plugin to other products, and other plugins such as Gradle can now take optional dependencies on Java, and still work if Java isn’t available. The new plugin is not visible in Settings | Plugins and cannot be switched off, so there should be no impact on end users. However, if you’re writing a plugin for I

Last time, we looked at Rider's new performance indicators for Unity, which highlight expensive operations inside performance critical contexts, such as calling GetComponent inside an Update method. These highlights are intentionally different to traditional warnings and suggestions because there is no easy "fix", partly because the code isn't necessarily wrong, but also because removing an expensive operation requires either changing the semantics of your code, or rearchitecting parts of your application (e.g. avoiding the use of SendMessage completely). These indicators provide context an

At JetBrains, we're big fans of static analysis. Rider has over 1,200 inspections designed to warn about potential issues, or suggest changes, nearly all with quick-fixes to address the problem. Some are about consistency, such as naming standards and code style. Others warn about redundant, unused, or unnecessary code, or help you write terser, more modern code, making use of new language features. And of course, Rider will warn you about code quality issues, such as potential null-reference exceptions or other runtime issues like infinite loops. Rider even has some Unity specific inspecti