code style

For decades, developers have had heated debates about tabs and spaces in their source code. The topic became so widespread that it made it into an episode of “Silicon Valley”. In this blog post, we will introduce you to ReSharper's Virtual Formatter, that helps you settle this particular infamous argument and even a couple more issues beyond accessibility and “the void’. What was it about again? As a quick refresher and for those who haven’t heard about it yet, here are the pros and cons of spaces versus tabs without any rating: Tabs create smaller file sizesSpaces look the sam

In this post, we’d like to share our plans for ReSharper 2021.3 and find out what we can do next to improve your development experience. Your feedback is always welcome! The following is a list of our priorities for the 2021.3 release cycle. Note that these are features we’re working on – as opposed to features scheduled for delivery – and that some of these might be delayed until a later version. Visual Studio 2022 – We are excited to start preparing ReSharper for the upcoming major release of Visual Studio! We already have an early build of ReSharper for the preview edition and would lov

Hello everyone! For the last 4 months the whole .NET division here at JetBrains has been working hard on preparing some awesome stuff for you in the last Rider release of this year. We hope you will enjoy all the new features and improvements. Say hello to the Rider 2020.3 release! Here are the most notable new features in this release. .NET 5 Rider supports all of the features from the latest versions of .NET including source generators, new NuGet features, and new target frameworks (net5.0-windows and net5.0). C# 9 All the new features from C# 9 are finally supported in Rider: reco

Just an hour ago, we published our first EAP build for ReSharper Ultimate 2020.1. Jump in and preview what’s coming in 2020.1! Since everybody seems interested in performance, let’s start with the performance news. There were tons of changes in the ReSharper architecture that bring us closer and closer to running all the core ReSharper features out of the Visual Studio process. All these modifications took place under the hood, so you won’t notice any changes in the UI/UX. If you missed the ReSharper 2020 Roadmap with news about our progress on moving ReSharper out of process, now is a

Starting from ReSharper 2019.3, we added more colors settings for highlighting code from Tools | Options | Fonts and Colors to adjust code highlighting more precisely. Let’s take a look at the new color options that are available! Before getting started, make sure ReSharper's Color Identifiers settings is enabled. You'll see the setting under ReSharper | Options | Code Inspection | Settings. (more…)

Rider contains many features for styling code so that it’s easy to read, and therefore easy to understand and maintain that code. This post is part of a series around finding a coding style that fits you like a glove, and how Rider can help: Find your perfect coding style using Rider Find your perfect C# style using Rider Find your perfect database development style using Rider Find your perfect web development style using Rider In this post, we’ll look at how you can create a style that works for all your database programming. For the purposes of this post, we’ll focus on Micr

What does C# code with good style look like? While it depends somewhat on the individual or team, there are a few popular staples of style when it comes to C#, and you'll read about those here. Regardless of what’s popular or recommended, code with good style always has two qualities: It's easy to read and consistent. Consistency is key in programming, and that really shows when it comes to programming style. This post is part of a series around finding a coding style that fits you like a glove, and how Rider can help: Find your perfect coding style using Rider Find your perfect C# st

A coding style is a way to consistently write code in a particular way. Style is all about readability. A good style should make it smooth, easy, and pleasant for you and others to read and modify. Code that’s easy to read is more maintainable and helps reduce errors. Everyone has a coding style that they fine tune throughout their coding careers. Some developers spend years working on getting their style just perfect. Most of the time, we work on a team, so our style has to blend in with the overall style of the team we’re on as well. Fortunately for us, we can use Rider to work on perfect