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Over the past few weeks, we’ve been chatting with Laurent Kempé, Team Leader & Distinguished Solution Architect at Innoveo. They are using JetBrains Rider to write code for their no-code platform. Let’s take a look at their journey…

We invite you to join JetBrains .NET Days Online 2021, a free virtual event, taking place Tuesday and Wednesday, May 11–12, 13:00–22:00 CEST (07:00–16:00 EDT). Let us know if you can make it! COUNT ME IN! Once a year, we invite community speakers to discuss topics they are passionate about, from varying levels of technical content to their personal experiences and development. See the full agenda

Native desktop development has changed since the dominance of Windows in the early days of personal computing. According to Statcounter, Windows still holds a comfortable 76% market share on individual desktop operating systems, the other 24% is split between operating systems such as macOS at 17%, and Linux variants holding the remaining 7%. Developers can miss one in four potential users by targ

Hi everyone! The bug-fix update for Rider and ReSharper is now available! This update fixes the license issue which was unfortunately introduced in the recent Rider and ReSharper 2021.1 updates. We are extremely sorry if you’ve experienced any problems with your current license or if this has affected you in any way. We’ll investigate the causes that led to the issue and will take all the necessar

How-To's

Join us Tuesday, April 27, 2021, 16:00 - 17:00 CEST (10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST or check other timezones) for our free live webinar, OSS Power-Ups: Snoop, with Bastian Schmidt. Register now and get a reminder, or join on YouTube This is the third episode of our OSS Power-Ups series, where we want to put a spotlight on open-source .NET projects. Snoop is the swiss army knife when it comes to analyzing

Routing is at the core of ASP.NET development. In the latest 2021.1 EAP builds, ReSharper and Rider now offer some excellent new functionality to work with routes and route templates in ASP.NET. Let’s take a look what the .NET tools can do for you. Route completion Sometimes, it’s the little things that are the most helpful. Once you’ve declared a parameter in an action method, ReSharper or Rider

In the Rider 2021.1 Early Access Program (EAP) builds, we’re bringing you.... Scaffolding! Scaffolding makes development using ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, or Razor Pages faster and more smooth. Let’s take a look at how the new scaffolding feature in Rider helps you create MVC Controllers, Razor pages, Entity Framework "CRUD", and pages and views for Identity. ASP.NET MVC Scaffolding A

Object-oriented programming is a popular programming paradigm. Many developers create object models for use in object-oriented systems. When those models are built, they often need to undergo some refactoring so that they are efficient, readable, and maintainable. ReSharper is there to help you make your object models better. Refactor classes You may have created a specific class such as a Checkin

Releases

ReSharper 2021.1, our first release of the year, has arrived! It doesn’t have a specific theme or goal, and we've focused instead on simply making improvements that would improve your experience. But we also can’t help adding things here and there. Code analysis has benefitted from a variety of improvements: we’re tying up the loose ends on C# 9.0 and upgrading the engine in general. We’ve added s

Hello everyone, We’ve just released Rider 2021.1. Let’s see what’s inside. Update to Docker Support Adding Docker support to a project in Rider is now easier – you can generate the Dockerfile while creating a new project. Just select Docker Support in the New project dialog. If you want to add a Dockerfile to an existing project, use Add | Docker Support in the context menu for a project in the S

Good news, everyone! Today we released Rider 2021.1 Beta. This means that we are on the homestretch of the major release. This build is packed with all the features that will soon be available with the official 2021.1 release. Let’s take a look at what’s coming. Docker support Adding Docker support to a project in Rider is now easier – select “Docker Support” on the “new project” dialog or use

Hello, everyone! The 2021.1 release is almost upon us, which means it’s high time to publish the ReSharper 2021.1 Beta build! This is your chance to get a look at all the features that we are going to deliver in the 2021.1 release. Here’s a brief summary of the new features! C# support The Merge into pattern inspection can now be used with many more code patterns. We’ve added more support

Webinars

The recording of our webinar, .NET 5 Dependency Injection, with Steve Collins. Subscribe to our community newsletter to receive notifications about future webinars. Since the release of .NET Core (now.NET 5), more developers are making use of dependency injection by using the default Microsoft Dependency Injection container that comes out of the box with .NET Core. This default implementation is

The recording of our webinar, Building Engaging Cross Platform Applications using Rider and Avalonia, with Dan Walmsley and Mike James, is now available. Subscribe to our community newsletter to receive notifications about future webinars. Avalonia is a cross platform XAML framework for .NET. It lets you build rich application experiences using XAML markup language and C# (or another .NET languag

Join us Thursday, April 8, 2021, 16:00 - 17:00 CEST (10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT or check other timezones) for our free live webinar, .NET 5 Dependency Injection, with Steve Collins. Register now and get a reminder, or join on YouTube Since the release of .NET Core (now.NET 5), more developers are making use of dependency injection by using the default Microsoft Dependency Injection container that com

Join us Tuesday, March 30, 2021, 16:00 - 17:00 CEST (10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT or check other timezones) for our free live webinar, Building Engaging Cross Platform Applications using Rider and Avalonia, with Dan Walmsley and Mike James. Register now and get a reminder, or join on YouTube Avalonia is a cross platform XAML framework for .NET. It lets you build rich application experiences using XAML

Events

In 2019, we held our first JetBrains .NET Day Online. After a succesful repeat in 2020, we want to again host sessions by community speakers at the JetBrains .NET Day Online 2021 on May 12, 2021. JetBrains .NET Day Online is a free virtual event where community speakers cover topics they are passionate about, ranging from deep technical .NET content and speakers' experiences with specific tools an

Last week, we held our first Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Reddit. We’d like to thank everyone who participated, and we hope you found it useful! What did you think of it? Would you like us to do another AMA session in the future? Please let us know in the comments! If you missed the session, here’s an overview of the most popular and interesting questions. For your convenience, we broke them d

The JetBrains .NET team would like to invite you to our Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Reddit at r/dotnet. Reddit is home to a thriving .NET community that we’d like to engage and hear feedback from, in addition to the many other channels of communication we’ve been using. You can ask us anything about our family of .NET products, the technologies we work with, our .NET team, or JetBrains in gen

JetBrains .NET Days Online, 13-14 May, 2020

Hooray! The talks from JetBrains .NET Days Online 2020 are now available for everyone to watch. (more…)

.NET Annotated

Did you know? There are over 30 languages that target the .NET CLI. The .NET CLI is an open specification of the runtime environment of the .NET framework. Perhaps you're getting bored with the same old .NET language. Why not try something like Cobra or X#? .NET news Introducing the .NET Upgrade Assistant Preview Announcing Entity Framework Core 6.0 Preview 2 Announcing .NET 6 Preview 2 Public p

Did you know? Windows used to be called Interface Manager. Interface Manager was supposed to be the name of the product, but was changed to Windows to solidify Microsoft's branding. In 1983 at Comdex, Windows was announced to the world. Naming is hard! .NET news There's not a lot of .NET news happening at the moment. But there have been a few previews released in the previous month, and an upda

Happy February! Do you know this computing trivia fact? Why is the C language is named C? Because it comes after B. It almost seems too simple. But we're not kidding! .NET news Happy 10th Birthday, NuGet! The Plan for Entity Framework Core 6.0 Diagnostics improvements in .NET 5 Azure Active Directory’s gateway is on .NET Core 3.1 Windows Terminal Preview 1.6 Release Featured Content How to be

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 S