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Just like ReSharper, Rider supports language injections. In almost every project there are cases where we want to (or have to) embed a piece of code in a string literal. For example, pieces of HTML inside a JavaScript string, or a quick JSON fragment inside a C# string. Let's see how they work. N…

We are getting closer to the release date and working hard towards providing the finest coding experience to Visual Studio 2017 RTM users. If you are already using the latest release of Visual Studio, make sure to download ReSharper Ultimate 2017.1 EAP 5 to get the best support for its new features.…

Here's a story on how I once used dotPeek to provide debugger symbols and (decompiled) source code for a crashed application for which we had nothing but the application assemblies available. Namespaces have been altered to protect the innocent. Nothing better than a good cup of coffee in the m…

We already mentioned numerous times that Rider is built on top of ReSharper, analyzing our code in the background, and the IntelliJ platform, providing the front end and editor capabilities for our cross-platform IDE for .NET. Doing so lets us ship the best of both worlds: both products have been…

One cool thing about Rider is that we can tap into the rich plugin ecosystem the IntelliJ platform brings. There are community plugins, and several JetBrains plugins as well. One of those was recently made available to work with Rider EAP: the File Watchers plugin, which executes tasks on file modif…

We've just released the third Early Access Preview build of ReSharper Ultimate 2017.1. Let's take a look at the recent changes in this and EAP 2. TypeScript and JavaScript This build introduces a number of performance fixes for TypeScript and JavaScript, as our processing of file dependencies has …

There's no way around it: .NET development today and in the future means working with NuGet for bringing dependencies into our projects. Rider lets us install, update and remove NuGet packages, and automatically restores missing packages when a project is opened. In this blog post, let's look at wha…

Good news everyone! A fresh Rider Early Access Program (EAP) build is available for download! Rider EAP 18 brings back CoreCLR debugging on Windows (Linux and Mac OS X will come later), the Invalid volume separator char solution load error has been fixed, there's a UI to add COM references an…

Since we first released the Early Access Preview (EAP) of Rider, our cross-platform IDE, we've been hard at work improving many aspects of it. We spent quite some time improving visible (and invisible) aspects of the editor. Let's look at some of the updates to code highlighting, folding and code co…

In this post, we're going to look at how ReSharper 2016.3 can help you unit test your .NET Core applications and libraries. Sadly, before we can look at this, we have to deal with the confusing issue of what versions of .NET Core are supported. TL;DR: ReSharper 2016.3 works with .NET Core proj…

IMPORTANT: See here for the updated version of the tutorial This is part five of the five-part series on working with Kotlin to create Configuration Scripts for TeamCity. An Introduction to Configuration Scripts Working with Configuration Scripts Creating Configuration Scripts dynamically…