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Join us Tuesday, March 30, 2021, 16:00 - 17:00 CEST (10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT or check other timezones) for our free live webinar, Building Engaging Cross Platform Applications using Rider and Avalonia, with Dan Walmsley and Mike James. Register now and get a reminder, or join on YouTube Avalonia is a cross platform XAML framework for .NET. It lets you build rich application experiences using XAML

The recording of our webinar, OSS Power-Ups: Fluent Assertions, with Dennis Doomen, is now available. Subscribe to our community newsletter to receive notifications about future webinars. This is the second episode of our series of OSS Power-Ups, where we want to put a spotlight on open-source .NET projects. Fluent Assertions is an extensive set of extension methods that allows you to more natura

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 update

In this post, we'll look at some pitfalls and ideas EF Core users like yourself may want to consider when developing an application. Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is a ground-up rewrite of Microsoft's object-database mapping framework. Getting started with EF Core is relatively straightforward, but mastering it can take an entire career. As a long-time user of earlier Entity Framework versions,

A few weeks back, we had a chat with Roland Soós, one of the Software Developers working on Wasabi Wallet. They shared with us how they use JetBrains Rider to build their application that works on Windows, macOS and Linux thanks to the cross-platform Avalonia framework. (more…)

Hello everyone! We‘ve just published the ReSharper Tools 2020.3.3 and Rider 2020.3.3 releases. Here’s a quick synopsis of the most critical fixes we’ve delivered with these builds. You can use the links below to navigate directly to the product you are interested in: Rider ReSharper dotMemory ReSharper Command Line Tools Rider 2020.3.3 The overall debugger experience is as smooth and fast as i

In the latest Rider 2021.1 Early Access Preview (EAP), we're helping .NET developers have the best development experience in building Windows-native applications. We've improved the XAML Preview tool, an essential feedback mechanism for WPF and XAML developers. Introduced in Rider 2018.1, the XAML preview tool window for WPF (on Windows) allows developers to preview the results of their XAML chang

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, 2021. JetBrains .NET Day Online is a free virtual event where community speakers cover topics they are passionate about, ranging from deep technical .NET content and speakers' experiences with specific tools an

Join us Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 16:00 - 17:00 CET (10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST or check other timezones) for our free live webinar, OSS Power-Ups: Fluent Assertions, with Dennis Doomen. Register now and get a reminder, or join on YouTube This is the second episode of our series of OSS Power-Ups, where we want to put a spotlight on open-source .NET projects. Fluent Assertions is an extensive set of ext

The recording of our webinar, OOPs, I did it again (untangling the mess we are making of object-oriented programming), with João Antunes, is now available. Subscribe to our community newsletter to receive notifications about future webinars. Object oriented programming is one of the most broadly used programming paradigms. The problem, however, is that most of the time, even if we use a primarily

Refactoring is the process of restructuring code to improve it. The improvements may be making the code more readable, formatting the code, or organizing it better. Refactoring shouldn’t change the behavior of code, just the quality of it. Readability is an important factor in the quality of code. If you can’t read the code, you can’t maintain it well. ReSharper helps you refactor to make your cod

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