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Of course, life is not only black and white. Quite often, code duplication can be introduced unintentionally, which is even more likely in bigger teams. The reasons don’t really matter. What’s more important is to have tools at hand. Tools that help to reliably detect code duplication in growing and…

Is TDD dead? That very provocative talk between Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, and David Heinemeier Hansson dates back to 2014. Unit testing integration hasn't seen any notable improvements since then, but we’re about to change that with the upcoming ReSharper and Rider 2018.3 release. New inspections, c…

Code analysis is an important technique to keep our code clean, readable and free of defects. Besides its own code analysis features, Rider 2018.1 started to add support for Roslyn Analyzers, such as xunit.analyzers, which seamlessly blend into the familiar way of highlighting code inspections, conf…

Using live templates and file templates can improve coding efficiency a lot while dealing with repetitive content, boilerplate code and language ceremony. For everyone who hasn’t heard of them: In previous versions, we could already invoke existing templates. However, seventy developers can’t…

Probably everyone has faced this issue once or twice: we’ve gone through all these options to find some proper formatting and code style settings. Most of our code looks pretty and clean now. But then, there are these few cases, where the formatter leaves our code in a rather unreadable or inconveni…

In February, the ASP.NET team announced the experimental project "Blazor" - a single-page web app framework built on .NET that runs in the browser with WebAssembly. Blazor is great news for all web developers and those who want to try something new. Basically, it allows us to create dynamic websites…

One of the most religious questions in software development: should the project view a.k.a. solution explorer go left or right? Besides having the one and only answer - detached and fullscreen of course - we would like to introduce you to the newest changes around the solution explorer and project m…

Sharing code is one of the most essential things in our daily developer's life. Thanks to the IntelliJ front end, Rider always had very strong integration with various VCS providers. Examples are a fast log view with flexible search options as well as a unified/side-by-side diff view with live synta…

Today, we continue our blog series about C# 7.2 language support in ReSharper and Rider. In this series: Leading numeric separators, ref structs and in parameters Readonly structs, ref readonly and conditional ref expressions Last time we indicated that there is a remaining pitfall with …

Time for another blog series! This time we will focus on the new C# 7.2 language features for which we've added support in ReSharper 2018.1 and Rider 2018.1. We will see how they help to improve our code quality and how they work under the hood. In this series: Leading numeric separators, ref…

In our previous post, we looked at how we can specify ReSharper's inspection severities inside our EditorConfig file. In this post, we will see how ReSharper and Rider integrate with StyleCop configurations. In this series: Maintaining consistent code style with formatting inspections Confi…

In our previous post, we looked at how we can specify ReSharper's inspection severities inside our EditorConfig file. In this post, we will see how ReSharper and Rider integrate with Roslyn conventions. In this series: Maintaining consistent code style with formatting inspections Configurin…