Run static methods from gutter, IL Viewer, install SDKs and more improvements in Rider 2019.1

Posted on March 26, 2019 by Maarten Balliauw

When we announced the latest Rider 2019.1 EAP build, we covered the highlights of this upcoming release. In this post, we’ll look at some smaller yet useful additions that we will ship in Rider 2019.1.

We can now run static methods from the gutter. It’s now possible to synchronize settings with your JetBrains Account. We’ve added ReSharper’s Intermediate Language (IL) viewer to Rider. A new Environment page in the settings helps us download and install additional components and SDKs. There is better theming support along with a couple of new theme plugins, and a bunch of other improvements. Curious? Read on!

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Running and debugging ASP.NET Core apps in IIS Express with Rider

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Maarten Balliauw

Let’s cut to the chase: the latest Rider 2019.1 EAP build supports running ASP.NET Core apps in IIS Express! There’s launchSettings.json support for IIS Express. We’ve added a settings page to help verify IIS Express is installed, including prerequisites. Oh, and we also check whether a trusted developer SSL certificate has been set up, and allow generating a self-signed certificate in case it isn’t.

After creating a new ASP.NET Core project or loading an existing one that has a launchSettings.json file with an IIS Express profile, Rider auto-imports it as a Run configuration.

Auto-import IIS Express Run Configuration in JetBrains Rider

That’s… it. Do read on if you would like to learn more – we’ll cover some details and additional configuration options that are available.

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Rider 2019.1 Kicks off its Early Access Program!

Posted on March 15, 2019 by Alexander Kurakin

Hello everyone,

We spent last month scrambling to prepare some great new goodies for you. Please welcome the Rider 2019.1 Early Access Program!

Rider 2019.1 Kicks off its Early Access Program!

The highlights of this first EAP build include:
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ReSharper Ultimate Starts its Early Access Program for 2019.1!

Posted on March 15, 2019 by Alexander Kurakin

Hi there,

It’s that time of the year when we usually start the Early Access Program for our inaugural major release of the year. Please give a warm welcome to the first ReSharper Ultimate 2019.1 EAP build!

ReSharper Ultimate Starts its Early Access Program for 2019.1!

ReSharper 2019.1 EAP comes with the following notable enhancements:
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Testing and Profiling ASP.NET Core REST API’s from Rider, part 2

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Chris Woodruff

We are continuing our series on testing ASP.NET Core Web API projects using Rider. We will be using the HTTP Client built into Rider’s IDE that will allow us to build the calls to our REST APIs developed in ASP.NET Core Web API.

In this part, we will look at executing the HTTP Client scripts and examining the results of the responses. We will be testing the GET, POST, PUT and DELETE HTTP request verbs. We will also look at how we can compare the history of the responses that have taken place against our APIs over time.

In this series:

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Testing and Profiling ASP.NET Core REST API’s from Rider, part 1

Posted on March 7, 2019 by Chris Woodruff

There are many different ways to test Web API’s developed using ASP.NET Core. Let’s look at how we can cover testing and profiling our APIs inside Rider. We will be using the HTTP Client built into Rider’s IDE that will allow us to build the calls to our REST APIs developed in ASP.NET Core Web API.

In this first part of a two-part series, we will begin with creating and composing the scripts for our HTTP requests against an ASP.NET Core Web API solution. We will be testing the GET, POST, PUT and DELETE HTTP request verbs. In part two of the series, we will look at executing the HTTP requests and analyzing the responses.

In this series:

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Connecting to a Microsoft SQL Server Linux Docker Container from Rider

Posted on March 5, 2019 by Chris Woodruff

There are many users of Rider that value the IDE for developing .NET Core applications on macOS. They also have need of running their Microsoft SQL Server databases locally for their work. This blog post will give developers insight on how to create SQL Server containers with Docker, and how to work with them in Rider. The best thing about working with Docker is that it is supported in many of our IDE’s – including DataGrip! Continue reading →

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ReSharper Ultimate 2018.3.4 and Rider 2018.3.4 are released!

Posted on March 5, 2019 by Alexander Kurakin

Today it is time to introduce you the new bug-fix update for 2018.3 releases of both ReSharper Ultimate and Rider.

ReSharper Ultimate 2018.3.4 fixes some critical issues which prevented using ReSharper in the Visual Studio 2019 Release Candidate build:

  • Both ReSharper and Visual Studio code completion popups appeared at the same time RSRP-473453.
  • The “New project” wizard was broken RSRP-472852.

Rider 2018.3.4 fixes the wrong URL for the Help | Contact Support action (RIDER-24391) and gets all the fixes from our IntelliJ Platform.
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Unity performance best practice with Rider, part 2

Posted on February 28, 2019 by Matt Ellis

Last time, we looked at Rider’s new performance indicators for Unity, which highlight expensive operations inside performance critical contexts, such as calling GetComponent inside an Update method.

These highlights are intentionally different to traditional warnings and suggestions because there is no easy “fix”, partly because the code isn’t necessarily wrong, but also because removing an expensive operation requires either changing the semantics of your code, or rearchitecting parts of your application (e.g. avoiding the use of SendMessage completely). These indicators provide context and awareness, and it’s up to you (and your profiler) to decide how, when and even if you want to address the advice.

Of course, there are always code patterns that can be easily and safely rewritten to perform better simply by using a different API or overload, or by caching values. In this post, we’ll take a look at some of these inspections and the Quick Fixes you can use to follow Unity’s own best practices and avoid some common performance issues in Unity.

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Exploring exception stack traces with ReSharper and Rider

Posted on February 26, 2019 by Chris Woodruff

We have all experienced bugs that throw exceptions in our applications. Using ASP.NET and getting a “yellow screen of death” (YSOD) with an exception message and stack trace? Using .NET Core and seeing stack traces printed to log files?

With ReSharper and Rider, we can explore and navigate stack traces from these exceptions better within the IDE. Let’s take a look at using the Stack Trace Explorer!

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