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Mea culpa! In all the excitement of recent weeks, not the least of which was presenting Rider at Unity's Unite events in Seoul, Tokyo and Beijing (and we hope to see some of you at Unite Berlin next week!) we forgot to finish off our series of posts about new Unity features in Rider 2018.1. Let's ha…
In our last couple of posts about new Unity features in Rider 2018.1, we've seen that updating our Unity editor plugin to be smarter now allows us to control play mode, and bring the Unity console directly into Rider. In this series: Control Unity editor play mode from within Rider View Uni…
Last time, we looked at how Rider 2018.1 introduces a new Unity editor plugin which allows us to build deeper integration with Unity. We saw how we can now control play mode and step single frames without having to switch away from Rider. In this series: Control Unity editor play mode from wi…
One of our big themes with Rider's Unity support is to reduce how much time you spend context switching between Rider and the Unity editor, and Rider 2018.1 introduces some new features that are designed to do just that. Our new secret sauce is that we've improved our existing Unity editor integr…
Yesterday, we posted about a new feature in Rider 2017.3.1 - debugging third party code in Mono. This feature nicely rounds out Rider's support for a specific Unity workflow - building and debugging external class libraries. Let's take a look at how Rider can help here. Unity will of course compi…
Back in December, we announced a really cool feature - the ability to seamlessly debug third party code in Rider. No need for a .pdb file, just hit F11 and step in - Rider will decompile the code on-the-fly, and boom! you're debugging, just like that. A fantastic feature, but only available for .NET…
Rider 2017.3 was a bumper release and added a lot of new features, improvements and fixes. Let's take a look at the Unity specific changes. As a quick reminder, Rider is a cross platform C# IDE, for Windows, Mac and Linux, with built-in support for Unity. Rider happily opens, builds and tests Uni…
IntelliJ 2018.1 introduces a new API that we want to make plugin authors aware of. We’re changing the way you retrieve Code Style settings (such as formatting options) so that you can provide a PsiFile, instead of a Project. The ultimate goal is to support different code style settings per scope, ra…
Today, I'd like to highlight a small but very useful feature for IDEs based on IntelliJ Platform – exporting editor color schemes as plugins. That's right, if you have a custom editor scheme defined, you can get your favorite IntelliJ-based IDE to export it as a plugin .jar file, complete with plugi…
Historically, all libraries used for building IntelliJ have been stored, as JAR files, directly in the IntelliJ git repositories. This approach has several downsides, such as increasing the size of the git repo whenever we need to update to a new version. Also, who wants to manually manage dependenc…
Some good news for plugin developers - starting in IntelliJ IDEA 2017.3 EAP 173.2463.16, we're introducing some improvements and fixes to working with test data. Let's take a look at what's new. For those that don't know, the IntelliJ Platform comes with a test framework we can use to test langua…
The last couple of builds of Rider 2017.2 EAP have seen a number of under-the-hood and foundational fixes and updates to the Unity support. Firstly, Rider will now read options such as the unsafe flag and pre-processor symbols from the mcs.rsp mono compiler response file, so Rider will now know w…
