Tales from the Development Crypt: Going Full Speed Ahead

For nearly twenty years, the .NET community has enjoyed working with solution files (*.sln). Due to their tooling-centered format, manually changing these files has always been challenging. Merge conflicts in solution files—much like merging CSPROJ files—were commonplace and often resulted in corrup…

We've been working with Stefan Reinalter and the team at Molecular Matters to make the industry-leading Live++ binary patching tool work seamlessly with C++ projects in JetBrains Rider! This is a great productivity boost for both Unreal Engine developers and those working on custom C++ engines. L…

Many teams are using GraphQL for their API needs, thanks to its powerful query language and flexibility. Unlike traditional REST APIs, GraphQL lets you fetch the data you need in a single request, making your applications more efficient and responsive. However, it can be daunting getting started …

Rider 2024.2 includes massive improvements to the native debugger, significantly improving the experience of evaluating native code while debugging. There are performance improvements, better handling of optimised code, and support for evaluating operators on smart pointers and string types. The cha…