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We have made some updates to the C# Interactive tool window in the latest Rider 2018.2 EAP build! It's now much easier to add project and assembly references to the current C# Interactive session. And once a project reference is added, we can attach the debugger and debug code snippets we are workin…

ReSharper Ultimate 2018.1.3 and Rider 2018.1.3 are out! At JetBrains, we take security vulnerabilities seriously. This is why we’ve just published a new bugfix update for ReSharper Ultimate 2018.1.3 and Rider 2018.1.3. These updates are here to deliver the hotfix for the Zip Slip vulnerability…

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…

We are starting our Early Access Program (EAP) for the Rider 2018.2 release cycle. You’re welcome to download the first Rider 2018.2 EAP build from here. Here are some highlights of the new features in this EAP build: (more…)…

Today we are kicking off the new cycle of the ReSharper Ultimate EAP (Early Access Program). Please welcome the ReSharper Ultimate 2018.2 EAP! In addition to more than 100 fixes, here are the new features and improvements you can already try in this first ReSharper 2018.2 EAP build: (more…

This post is part of a 10-week series by Dino Esposito (@despos) around a common theme: code smells and code structure. In the previous post of this series, we presented the value of using data containers instead of plain primitives to provide a representation of data that is closer to the real d…

This post is part of a 10-week series by Dino Esposito (@despos) around a common theme: code smells and code structure. Good to see you back! In our series about code smells, so far we have seen various theoretical cases. Today, we will look at an example that can be found in many code bases: spe…

Many developers are working with both .NET technologies as well as JavaScript or TypeScript. All of these ecosystems come with their own package managers to install (third-party) dependencies. Developers using Rider have probably already made use of built-in NuGet support to cover the .NET side, …

For the next 10 weeks, we'll have weekly posts by Dino Esposito (@despos) around a common theme: code smells and code structure. Keep an eye on our blog! As humans, we have plenty of sweat glands all over the skin. As coders, we have plenty of lines of code all over the project repository. In hum…

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…

Our latest release of ReSharper 2018.1.2 includes improvements in formatting that we have not yet showcased in previous blog posts. We have already written a series about maintaining consistent code style with formatting inspections earlier. Now let's look at some of the other formatting features th…

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…