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Hello everyone, The new release version of Rider is here! Let’s explore some of the most exciting features included with it. Before diving into the feature set, there is an important note. Starting with the 2021.2 release of our .NET productivity tools, including Rider, we will require .NET Framework 4.7.2 or newer installed on your machine. Learn more here. Support for ASP.NET Core

Good news, everyone! We are happy to announce the release of the 2021.2 versions of dotCover, dotMemory, dotTrace, and dotPeek. Before diving into the feature set we’ve added in this release, there are a couple of important notes: Starting with the 2021.2 release of our .NET productivity tools, including dotCover, dotMemory, dotTrace, and dotPeek, we will require .NET Framewor

Great news, everyone! ReSharper 2021.2 is now out! Before diving into the feature set, there is an important note. Starting with the 2021.2 release of our .NET productivity tools, including ReSharper, we will require .NET Framework 4.7.2 or newer to be installed on your machine. Learn more here. Now let’s have a look at what's inside. Code Analysis The new Swap via d

In this post, our friends from SpecFlow dive into how BDD and Rider help you write better, maintainable code through the use of automated tests.

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In this post, our friends from SpecFlow dive into how BDD and Rider help you write better, maintainable code through the use of automated tests.

Blazor Debugging Improvements in Rider 2021.2

The EAP versions of Rider 2021.2 have been released with a major improvement for Blazor developers: debugging WebAssembly (WASM) apps! This has been one of the top requested features since Blazor itself was released. In Rider 2021.2, you can now debug both Blazor Server apps and Blazor WASM apps! The Debugging Experience In Blazor apps, the overall debugging experience is the same as in othe

As developers, we find ourselves in a renaissance of API design philosophies. There is REST, HTTP APIs, GraphQL, SOAP, and the list continues to grow. Given all the choices, we can understand that it can be difficult to tell which one to use. In this post, we'd like to introduce you to gRPC, one of the newer approaches .NET developers have in designing their APIs. The method is gaining populari

The recording of our webinar, OSS Power-Ups: Verify, with Simon Cropp, is now available. Subscribe to our community newsletter to receive notifications about future webinars, or visit our dedicated OSS Power-Ups overview with all the previous episodes and background information. This is the sixth episode of our series of our OSS Power-Ups, where we put a spotlight on open-source .NET p

Releases

Hi, We want to thank everyone who shared their feedback on Unreal Engine 5 in Rider for Unreal Engine Preview! We are happy to see that so many people are using Rider on a daily basis to create fantastic Unreal Engine games. It’s time to share a new version with our community! It brings more fixes for Unreal Engine 5 projects and unveils our debugger overhaul, which significantly improves the wa

Webinars

Join us Thursday, August 5, 2021, 16:00 - 17:00 CEST (10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT or check other timezones) for our free live webinar, Supercharge Your ASP.NET Core Applications, with Kevin Griffin. Register now and get a reminder, or join on YouTube For many developers, the transition from ASP.NET 4.0+ to ASP.NET Core was a minor change. Depending on your application's complexity, you could

The recording of our webinar, Absolute Beginner's Guide to Docker, with Jonathan Turner, is now available. Subscribe to our community newsletter to receive notifications about future webinars. Are you tired of hearing people gush about how great Docker, Kubernetes and containers are and not knowing exactly what they’re talking about? Have you heard about how amazing Docker is

Join us Wednesday, July 14 2021, 12:00 - 13:00 CEST (6:00 AM - 7:30 AM EDT or check other timezones) for our free live webinar, OSS Power-Ups: Verify, with Simon Cropp. Register now and get a reminder, or join on YouTube This is the sixth episode of our series of OSS Power-Ups, where we put a spotlight on open-source .NET projects. Verify is a snapshot tool that enables the assertion of complex da

The recording of our webinar, OSS Power-Ups: SpecFlow, with Andreas Willich, is now available. Subscribe to our community newsletter to receive notifications about future webinars. This is the fifth episode of our series of OSS Power-Ups, where we put a spotlight on open-source .NET projects. SpecFlow is a tool to bring Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) to .NET by providing a mech

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? 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 .

Did you know? There are over 220 billion (yes, billion!) lines of COBOL still in use today! It sounds crazy, but it's true. A substantial part of the US government on both the federal and state level use COBOL as well as finance and private industry have COBOL systems. Many .NET developers hope that .NET will someday have this legacy, but this happened in part because of the extreme expense of mai

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

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