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A few weeks back, we had a chat with Dariusz Komosinski, Lead Software Engineer at GritWorld. He shared with us some background about how they use JetBrains Rider and the cross-platform Avalonia UI framework to build GritGene, their powerful real-time 3D graphics engine. Hi Dariusz, can you tell us a bit more about yourself and GritWorld? I am a Lead Software Engineer at GritWorld. Throughou

Did you know? C# has a goto statement. It's true. But before you run out there to try this in your code, this is a great time to paraphrase the words of the honorable scientist Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park: "Your developers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should". Definitely stop and think if you "should" before using goto. .NET news

Join us Tuesday, May 18, 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: Silk.NET, with Dylan Perks and Kai Jellinghaus. Register now and get a reminder, or join on YouTube This is the fourth episode of our series of OSS Power-Ups, where we put a spotlight on open-source .NET projects. Silk.NET is a high-performance, low-level w

Good news! Microsoft has announced a new version of Visual Studio 2022. And of course, we will make sure that ReSharper is available for it to help you write better code. The announcement from Microsoft also reveals that Visual Studio will be 64-bit. Our own Rider IDE has been 64-bit since 2017, and it's great to see Visual Studio finally doing this too. Welcome to the 64-bit club! 👋

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Hello everyone, We’ve just published the bug-fix updates to ReSharper and Rider. Let’s take a look at the most important changes. ReSharper We’ve fixed the issue that caused Visual Studio to freeze on debugging web applications (RSRP-483982). We’ve fixed the never-ending code analysis when Razor components contain each other (RSRP-483454). We’ve fixed the exception when running unit tes

Hi everyone, A year ago, on April 22, 2020, we announced the launch of the Rider for Unreal Engine Public Preview! We took some great strides this past year, welcoming more than 20 thousand subscribers to the Public Preview program. Rider for Unreal Engine is now used by more than 4300 users every week, including both individual game developers and big game studios. We greatly appreciate all the f

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

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

Webinars

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

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

Events

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

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

.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