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Good news, everyone! We've added several new tutorials to the JetBrains .NET Guide! JetBrains .NET Guide The .NET Guide was introduced in 2020, as a central place for tutorials, tips & tricks for .NET and the JetBrains .NET tools. Now let's see what's new! Moving from Visual Studio to JetBrains Rider If you're eager to explore JetBrains Rider, our fast, cross-platform .NET IDE, we've written a

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been chatting with Laurent Kempé, Team Leader & Distinguished Solution Architect at Innoveo. They are using JetBrains Rider to write code for their no-code platform. Let’s take a look at their journey…

Native desktop development has changed since the dominance of Windows in the early days of personal computing. According to Statcounter, Windows still holds a comfortable 76% market share on individual desktop operating systems, the other 24% is split between operating systems such as macOS at 17%, and Linux variants holding the remaining 7%. Developers can miss one in four potential users by targ

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

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

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

Hello everyone, We’ve just released Rider 2021.1. Let’s see what’s inside. Update to Docker Support Adding Docker support to a project in Rider is now easier – you can generate the Dockerfile while creating a new project. Just select Docker Support in the New project dialog. If you want to add a Dockerfile to an existing project, use Add | Docker Support in the context menu for a project in the S

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

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

Good news, everyone! Today we released Rider 2021.1 Beta. This means that we are on the homestretch of the major release. This build is packed with all the features that will soon be available with the official 2021.1 release. Let’s take a look at what’s coming. Docker support Adding Docker support to a project in Rider is now easier – select “Docker Support” on the “new project” dialog or use

Hello, everyone! The 2021.1 release is almost upon us, which means it’s high time to publish the ReSharper 2021.1 Beta build! This is your chance to get a look at all the features that we are going to deliver in the 2021.1 release. Here’s a brief summary of the new features! C# support The Merge into pattern inspection can now be used with many more code patterns. We’ve added more support

Routing is at the core of ASP.NET development. In the latest 2021.1 EAP builds, ReSharper and Rider now offer some excellent new functionality to work with routes and route templates in ASP.NET. Let’s take a look what the .NET tools can do for you. Route completion Sometimes, it’s the little things that are the most helpful. Once you’ve declared a parameter in an action method, ReSharper or Rider

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New .NET Guide Tutorials – From Visual Studio to Rider, ReSharper Essentials, Docker, and more!

Case Study – How Innoveo builds a no-code solution with Rider

ReSharper & Rider Improvements For Avalonia

Rider 2021.1.1 and ReSharper 2021.1.1 Released

.NET 5 Dependency Injection – Webinar recording

ReSharper 2021.1: Updates in Code Analysis, Support for ASP.NET Route Templates, and Rename for Tuple Components

Rider 2021.1: Updates to Docker and C# Support, Scaffolding in ASP.NET, and More!

.NET Annotated | April 2021

Building Engaging Cross Platform Applications using Rider and Avalonia – Webinar recording

Rider 2021.1 Reaches Beta!

ReSharper 2021.1 Beta is available!

Work with ASP.NET Core route templates in ReSharper and Rider