The .NET Tools Blog : Essential productivity kit for .NET developers

The .NET Tools Blog

Essential productivity kit for .NET developers

Latest posts

View all posts

Changes are coming to the installation process for our .NET Tools, specifically ReSharper and Rider. The JetBrains ETW Host Service will now be delivered through a standalone installer, allowing you to choose the bitness (x86 or x64). In addition, the change will allow us to deliver critical security updates out-of-band to the service. Event Tracing For Windows (ETW) Host Service Event Traci

Hello everybody! We’ve just released the second bugfix update to ReSharper and Rider 2021.2. Let’s go through the highlights of these builds. ReSharper The JetBrains.ReSharper.GlobalTools package is compatible with .NET Core 3.1 again (RSRP-485977).We’ve fixed a number of issues in support for C# 10's constant interpolated strings.We’ve fixed the false positive errors in Blazor projects on b

Copy/paste is probably the most used action by anyone using a computer. But how do you copy the thing you want to copy? Say you are in a method in the editor – how do you copy a link to the current line on GitHub? Or copy the current namespace, class name, or method name to the clipboard? ReSharper and Rider keep you in the flow of coding, without having to jump through hoops to copy this informat

The recording of our webinar, Profiling and Fixing Common Performance Bottlenecks, with Steve Desmond, is now available. Subscribe to our community newsletter to receive notifications about future webinars. Performance is paramount when it comes to user experience. Studies have shown that faster apps lead to better outcomes, while slow sites lose customers and sales. So why are there so man

How-To's

For better or worse, mostly better, Git has outclassed its way over version control systems (VCS) like Subversion, Perforce, and ClearCase to become the source control management system of the modern developer. If you didn't get any of those VCS references, well, consider yourself lucky to live in an age of cheap local branching, convenient staging areas, multiple workflow support, and a wealth of

Join us Thursday, 23rd September 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: CliWrap, with Alexey Golub. Register now and get a reminder, or join on YouTube This is the eighth episode of our series of OSS Power-Ups, where we put a spotlight on open-source .NET projects. CLI is quite possibly one of the best things to have

The recording of our webinar, OSS Power-Ups: Statiq, with Dave Glick, is now available. Subscribe to our community newsletter to receive notifications about future webinars. Even though you may not be familiar with the idea of static site generation or the JAMstack, this decades-old concept is being given new life and taking the web development world by storm. While many other platforms have po

dotTrace has long been our go to tool for performance profiling, helping you diagnose bottlenecks and performance problems in all types of managed code. In the 2021.2 release, we now support profiling native applications in Windows.

Releases

Rider for Unreal Engine Preview is widely used by many game developers around the world. We have more than 32,000 people registered in the program and we’ve gotten very positive feedback from them. According to our survey of early previewers: 28.3% use it for all their work and personal projects 15.4% use it for all their work projects 44.3% use it for all their personal projects 81.7% of

Get the build right now! Let’s take a look at what we have inside. Problems View Having all potential problems for a solution in one place can be helpful, which is why we are happy to introduce the "Problems View"! The Problems View (the "Problems" tab in Rider UI) is a tool window that aggregates all of the potential issues that exist in a solution, such as project loading errors,

The Early Access Program for ReSharper 2021.3 has started! Get the build today! Support for Visual Studio 2022 Preview About a month ago, we published a build with early support for Visual Studio 2022 Preview. According to feedback from our users, ReSharper works faster in the new x64 version of Visual Studio. So far, so good! Finally, we decided to push this support t

Webinars

The recording of our webinar, Building an Online Ticket Store with Blazor WebAssembly, with Steve Peirce, is now available. Subscribe to our community newsletter to receive notifications about future webinars. Find out why Blazor is the dotnet new hotness as Steve builds an Online Ticket Store with Blazor WebAssembly (WASM). Blazor is a feature of ASP.net core that lets y

The recording of our webinar, OSS Power-Ups: CliWrap, with Alexey Golub, is now available. Subscribe to our community newsletter to receive notifications about future webinars. CLI is quite possibly one of the best things to have happened to the world of computing. Using a ubiquitous interface that lends itself extremely well for automation, we can create executables that allow us to share

The recording of our webinar, ChatOps the Easy Way with Abbot, with Phil Haack, is now available. Subscribe to our community newsletter to receive notifications about future webinars. Join Phil Haack as we discuss ChatOps and his Abbot service. ChatOps helps organizations empower teams to perform critical business actions through ubiquitous chat platforms like Slack, Discord, Teams, an

Events

Thank you to everyone who joined us for JetBrains .NET Days Online 2021! We had two 8-hour days full of knowledge and inspiration, as well as a very lively chat during our stream on YouTube thanks to our attendees. 14 community speakers shared their experience of working with C#, F#, GraphQL, Blazor, gRPC, Dapper, Amazon EKS, databases, debugging, refactoring, and more. If you missed any of the t

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

Edit: 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! 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

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

.NET Annotated

Did you know? The first person to write a program was Ada Lovelace, in 1843. Ada was an English mathematician and writer who worked on Charles Babbage's machine, the "Analytical Engine". She realized that computers have applications beyond mathematical calculations and thus became the first person to create an algorithm to put those non-mathematical applications to use. How amazed would Ada be if

Did you know? There is a reason for why the language C was named C, and it's all about our A, B, C's. It's because there was a language called B and C comes after B in the alphabet! It sounds like a joke, but it's not. Really! In addition, C did borrow a few concepts from B, so this seemed like a natural progression in naming. But B wasn't called B because it came after A. B was an implementation

Did you know? The first computer mouse was invented in 1964 and was made of wood. Indeed, it was! We've come a long way since then. Nowadays, computer mice are made with acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) plastic and are quite advanced when compared to early models. .NET news .NET Foundation Election 2021 Nominations are Open!Announcing .NET 6 Preview 6Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 6Mi

Did you know? Microsoft created a C based language named C# in 1988? 1988!? You heard that right! It's true! This language, of course, was not the C# that we all know and love today. Meanwhile, Rico Mariani says in that same article that the code name for VB version 1 was named "Thunder". Befitting. .NET news What’s new in Windows Forms in .NET 6.0 Preview 5Package ValidationAnnouncing .