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This is the second post looking at the updated features in Rider 2019.1 for Xamarin Android. In the previous post, we covered Xamarin Android Visual Designer and Layout Inspector. In this post, we will cover several new UI-based development features for the Android flavor of Xamarin. We will look…

We have added a number of features for Xamarin Android in Rider 2019.1. It is now easier than ever to install required SDK's to build Xamarin Android apps. This latest release also brings additional UI-based development features for the Android flavor of Xamarin: the AXML Visual Designer helps us de…

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 …

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. …

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…

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 …

We live in a world of teams, and with teams comes communication about our software projects in terms of what work needs to be done and bugs that have been discovered. What if we could work directly in Rider on those GitHub issues that have been assigned to us? In this post, we will be looking at …

We have already looked at the many new and improved features of Rider! Let's look at even more available in the Rider 2018.3 version. We are going to look at what's new in Code Completion with regards to Package references, configuration files and more! In addition, we will also look at chang…

Last time, we looked at several new features and fixes available in the Rider 2018.3 Early Access Preview (EAP) version – but definitely not all of them! There are more things to cover... We have more flexibility for building .NET and .NET Core solutions. We have exciting news about the Roslyn an…

With the Holiday Season right around the corner, we have a nice present for everyone: get the new Rider Early Access Preview (EAP) version and try it out! In Rider 2018.3, we've improved the Search Everywhere action along with a new Plugin page. While you are coding, you will find that we hav…

We all have experienced the effort and time it takes to rename a project in a solution. We have to update folder and file names, adjust namespaces, fix various references, and usually yell at our computer to make things work. All that work takes a lot of iterations and can be frustrating. What if…

The latest versions of ReSharper 2018.2 and Rider 2018.2 come with support for C# 7.3. In this series, we are looking at these new language features in C# 7.3. Today we will look at the array initializers in stackalloc. This post is part of a series: Declaration expressions in initializers an…