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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-awai…

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 developme…

C# 9 has brought us init-only properties and records, allowing us to work with types similarly to functional languages. Let’s take a look at some new C# 9 features and how both ReSharper and Rider 2020.3 support them. Init-only properties The ability to initialize C# objects without having to write …

Here we are, at the end of 2020. Many around the world are entering their peak of the holiday season, so happy holidays to you! We at JetBrains hope you stay safe, healthy, and happy through 2021 and beyond. This month in computing history reveals the first PhD granted in the field of Computer Scien…

As developers, we love tools. But often, too much tooling gets in the way when trying to develop applications quickly. Have you ever been ripping through code when you want to refactor or do a common task, but just can’t find the command for it because there are too many distractions? It’s very frus…

With the .NET 5 release comes the newest Entity Framework Core version, unsurprisingly called Entity Framework Core 5 (EF Core 5). The .NET community got its first glimpse of Entity Framework (EF) on August 11th, 2008, with the release of .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. Let's say a few things hav…

As developers, we're in a neverending struggle to find a balance between style and substance. The tabs vs. spaces argument even found its way into pop culture during Season 3 of HBO's Silicon Valley. We understand that style can be a point of debate within teams. While the codebase's style might not…

Today we would like to share with you a special guest post from our friends over at Uno Platform. They have been working hard on bringing a first-class cross-platform experience to .NET developers everywhere. This post was originally writen by Kenzie Whalen-Dunn. With the release of Uno Platform 3.0…

In the dark ages of .NET, developers had to crawl the internet for dependencies, run installers, create bloated lib folders, and possibly introduce assemblies into the Global Assembly Cache. Gross! Those who remember will agree it was terrible, but it's better now! We can all breathe a deep sigh of …