Happy new year! It's now 2021 and if you're reading this, you survived the crazy year that has been 2020! For this year, we'll start the .NET Annotated newsletter with fun tidbits of computing information. If you have fun computing or computer language trivia, facts, or tips, send them to us! We'll do our best to fit them in here. Did you know? The acronym BASIC means "Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code". It's been a wildly popular language for decades, known for its ease of use. From AppleSoft BASIC to ZBasic, there are hundreds of dialects of the BASIC language. While

Join us Wednesday, January 27, 2020, 16:00 - 17:00 CET (10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST or check other timezones) for our free live webinar, OSS Power-Ups: FluentValidation, with Jeremy Skinner. Register now and get a reminder, or join on YouTube This is the start of our series of OSS Power-Ups, where we want to put a spotlight on open-source .NET projects. FluentVaildation is a library for building strongly-typed validation rules, with amazing popularity, and over 50 million downloads on NuGet. Jeremy Skinner, the maintainer, will help us get started with some basic examples, writing custom validator

Hello everyone, From time to time, even a bugfix update needs an urgent hotfix update. Last week we published Rider 2020.3.1, which fixed several hot issues from the 2020.3 release. Unfortunately, we re-introduced the RIDER-54983 issue that affected all the icons from the plugins. The icons couldn't be displayed in the code editor, including icons in the code completion popup, on the left margin, in Code Vision, etc. This is why we’re releasing the hotfix Rider 2020.3.2 to resolve that issue. You will get an update notification shortly in Rider or in the Toolbox App. As for ReSharper 2020.3.2,

We’ve published the first bug-fix updates for both ReSharper and Rider. Let’s look at the most important changes. ReSharper 2020.3.1 Fixed the issues with spaces being added instead of a virtual indent (RSRP-482555). Fixed the incorrect ‘Parameter type can be IEnumerable<>’ suggestion for records (RSRP-482503). Fixed Tab behavior (RSRP-482481). Fixed the false warning about the init-only property in a readonly struct (RSRP-482228) The full list of fixed issues in ReSharper 2020.3.1 is available in our bug tracker. Rider 2020.3.1 Fixed the issue with pausing Unity at the break

Time to get excited: dotCover 2020.3 is here! Get ready for quality-of-life improvements such as coverage filtering by target framework, different build modes for continuous testing, updates to provide better coverage highlighting, command-line tooling enhancements, and more! Let's have a look. (more…)

Hello everyone, We’ve just published the 2020.2.5 bugfix release for our dotnet tools – ReSharper, ReSharper C++, Rider, dotCover, dotMemory, dotTrace, and dotPeek. The main reason for this release is that we wanted Rider to run smoothly on macOS Big Sur. We fixed some issues that were preventing Rider from correctly opening and debugging projects on the new macOS Big Sur (the whole list is available in our bug tracker). Unfortunately, because all our dotnet tools share the same Deploy button, updates to all the tools will be published, however, the only one that has any changes is Rider. Sor

Ah, December. A great month! It provides us with some downtime, there are a number of holidays, and it's the month where I turn 37. December also brings a chance to look back at the past year, and that's exactly what we wanted to do in this blog post: look back at our 2020 webinars, and look forward to 2021. 🤔 JetBrains Webinars? Each month, we try to bring you at least one session where community speakers cover the topics they are passionate about. This year we have seen deep technical .NET content, open source tools, methodology, and some topics around personal development. Speakers

Join us Tuesday, January 19, 2020, 16:00 - 17:00 CET (10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST or check other timezones) for our free live webinar, Xamarin, the best way to make NFC Apps, with Saamer Mansoor. Register now and get a reminder, or join on YouTube Learn about NFC technology, potential invention ideas, the NFC capabilities & differences between iPhone & Android apps, and why Xamarin is the best way to make cross-platform NFC Apps. Also, learn about ways to implement security and limitations. (more…)

Hello everyone! For the last 4 months the whole .NET division here at JetBrains has been working hard on preparing some awesome stuff for you in the last Rider release of this year. We hope you will enjoy all the new features and improvements. Say hello to the Rider 2020.3 release! Here are the most notable new features in this release. .NET 5 Rider supports all of the features from the latest versions of .NET including source generators, new NuGet features, and new target frameworks (net5.0-windows and net5.0). C# 9 All the new features from C# 9 are finally supported in Rider: reco

Hello everyone and welcome to ReSharper’s third and final release of the year! With C# 9 recently released, ReSharper 2020.3 was destined to be about supporting new language features with our entire tool set. Of course, Source Generators had to be covered too. We also managed to implement long-awaited support for the Avalonia UI framework, and we added some new features to help with your daily routine. Let’s dig into these improvements. ReSharper 2020.3 C# 9 Record types introduced in C# 9 are reference types with value semantics. They go perfectly with init-only properties that can only

During the last several days, I've been experimenting with an Apple M1 device from the perspective of a .NET Developer using a typical developer toolkit: .NET SDKs, Node, JetBrains Rider, other editors, and mobile emulators. For .NET developers considering using an Apple M1 for their daily development machine, we'll see what it is currently like to work on these devices. The goal is not to get everything to work, but to share the out-of-the-box experience developers will face in adopting an M1 chipset-driven products. Apple M1? On November 1st, 2020, through a mesmerizing drone-driven presenta

The recording of our webinar, Tips & Tricks to improve your .NET Build Setup with MSBuild, with Martin Ullrich, is now available. Subscribe to our community newsletter to receive notifications about future webinars. MSBuild is the powerful - now open source - build system used in all .NET Builds. It has a language of its own and allows you to customize most parts of your build. For growing code bases the requirements to the build and deployment setup of your project(s) increase as well, so in this session I want to show you a few Tips & Tricks to make working with .NET projects easier