How often do you reach for a profiler? Only when things go wrong, right? All too often, we use profilers only as a last resort, even though dotTrace and dotMemory are both pleasant to work with. What if we told you that Dynamic Program Analysis (DPA) in ReSharper automatically analyzes the memory usage of your applications and helps catch difficult-to-diagnose memory allocation issues before we deploy them to production. Because we all know an unhappy user is an unhappier developer, let's see how DPA can keep us happy! Why is DPA important? Memory allocation issues are the most difficult to ca

A valuable part of the debugging experience is experimentation, modifying variables and determining whether the outcomes were what we expected. With the latest release of Rider 2020.3 EAP, we're happy to give developers more tools that make debugging more effective. As you may have guessed from the title of this post, the Immediate Window is shipping in Rider 2020.3 EAP. What is the Immediate Window? The immediate window offers a way to access the code of our application while it is being executed. While debugging, we can write additional code that can add to or alter the current code executio

The recording of our webinar, Service Creation via .NET Core Templates, with Olga Nelioubov, is now available. Subscribe to our community newsletter to receive notifications about future webinars. Custom .NET templates are a fantastic way to bootstrap your .NET services, however they're not only limited to the .NET world – their usefulness could extend to templating out pipelines, applications in other languages, configuration files, or anything else that can be opened with a text editor. Furthermore, they are extremely simple to set up and can be easily packaged and distributed to others for

In ReSharper, you can use Ctrl+T to Search Everywhere. And with everywhere, we do mean everywhere! Did you know ReSharper also indexes and searches in textual content? I'll use the Carter framework as an example solution in this blog post. When searching for DocumentTitle, you can see that ReSharper finds relevant symbols (2 properties in this case), and also textual occurrences in appsettings.json and throughout the codebase. Go to Text helps you navigate to text in source and textual files easier and faster than using Visual Studio's built-in Find in Files. Let's look at it in more detail.

With the upcoming release of C# 9, we're all getting some new tools for our development toolboxes. One of the most exciting features .NET 5 is delivering to developers is top-level statements. In this post, we'll explore what top-level statements are, who they're useful for, the rules of top-level statement apps, and taking a peek at intermediate language (IL) generation. Gather round the virtual campfire 🏕, and let's explore this topic together. (more…)

UML, or Unified Modeling Language, is, as the name implies, a modeling language that allows you to visualize systems. In this post, we’ll look at how PlantUML enables you to create various kinds of diagrams so that you can properly document your software. We’ll create two of the most popular UML diagram types: Class and Use Case diagrams, to demonstrate what you can do with the PlantUML plugin in Rider. (more…)

A little bit of October's computing history: In 2001, Microsoft released Windows XP! Thank goodness for the chance to get away from Windows 98 & ME. Meanwhile, Apple was busy working on consumer products and had released the iPod. .NET news .NET Foundation All Hands - The .NET Foundation is holding its first ever public All Hands meeting. Guess who's hosting it? That's right, yours truly! Join in on October 13, ask questions and see what's going on in the world of .NET! Repo experience survey results NET Core Releases and Support Highlights The future of .NET Standard Announcing .NET 5.0

Hello everyone, Today we’ve published small bugfix updates to ReSharper and Rider. Here are the issues that we’ve addressed. Rider Fixed launching iOS apps on Xcode 12 simulators (RIDER-50673). ReSharper Fixed restoring unit test sessions with continuous testing: they now persist through solution reopening (RSRP-481297). dotTrace Fixed the ‘ETW collector internal error’ in Timeline profiling (DTRC-26888). You can download Rider 2020.2.4 and ReSharper 2020.2.4 from our website or update either of them by using the Toolbox App. You can also update Rider as a snap if you are using a compati

Get out your dirndl and lederhosen - it's that time of year again! We're excited to be sponsoring Hacktoberfest 2020. Hacktoberfest is an opportunity for contributors worldwide to give back to their favorite projects in the form of pull-requests. In this blog post, you will find out what Hacktoberfest is, as well as a nice surprise by JetBrains. But there's more! We'll share types of activities you can contribute, and a list of .NET projects that need your help. Let's start at the beginning... 📯 Hacktoberfest For those unfamiliar with Hacktoberfest, here are the basic rules of particip

Most companies, both large and small still use XML, even if JSON has overtaken it in popularity. However, many are using it, for example to exchange data, or have configuration files that can contain comments (unlike JSON). Whatever your reason for using XML, Rider contains many great XML features that enable you to work with it more efficiently. In this blog post, we’ll look at using Rider to create and maintain perfectly well-formed XML, schemas, and more. Fortunately for us, Rider contains many great XML features that enable you to work with it more efficiently. In this blog post, we’ll loo

One of the wonderful things about .NET is the vast array of platforms .NET developers can target. My personal experience has been developing ASP.NET applications and HTTP APIs, but recently I've been dabbling with mobile applications built using Rider and Xamarin.Forms. For those curious, or maybe even a little scared, about working with Xamarin.Forms, well, don't be. I've found the Xamarin.Forms community to be welcoming and very helpful to a mobile newbie like me. I've also found the platform itself to be straightforward to get started and iterate on as I've learned new approaches to solving

Hello everyone, Please welcome ReSharper 2020.3 EAP1. It’s only the beginning of the release cycle, but we’ve already got something to show you! ReSharper With C# 9 on the way, we’re doing a lot to support the latest language standard. For top-level statements, ReSharper not only provides some basics, like code completion and code analysis, but also offers a couple of handy quick-fixes and refactorings. When copy-pasting pieces of code, we often don't care about placement. However, C# 9 requires top-level statements to precede any type or namespace declarations. Fortunately, ReSharper