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The Early Access Program for Rider 2023.2 is in full swing! Earlier this week, EAP 6 introduced AI Assistant to Rider. This time around, we don’t have any big reveals. We’re instead focusing on minor but valuable improvements to existing workflows. Before you download Rider 2023.2 EAP 7, let’s ta…

Whether you use Object-Relational Mappers (ORMs) like Entity Framework Core (EF Core) or Dapper to work with data and databases in your applications or you use the underlying ADO.NET and SqlConnection directly, it’s easy to run into situations where performance could be improved by changing how you …

Here comes another round of bug-fix updates for ReSharper Tools and Rider 2022.3. Let’s take a look at what has been improved. Rider  Performance Searching in the Search Everywhere popup shouldn’t be slow anymore (IDEA-308324). Code editor The Undo action works as expected in…

Hello everyone,  A new EAP build for Rider 2022.3 has just landed. Let’s take a look at the most notable updates it contains. New UI We invite you to switch to the new UI for IntelliJ-based IDEs in Settings | Appearance & Behavior | New UI Preview. The new UI is an ongoing effort t…

Great news, everyone!  ReSharper 2021.2 is now out! Before diving into the feature set, there is an important note. Starting with the 2021.2 release of our .NET productivity tools, including ReSharper, we will require .NET Framework 4.7.2 or newer to be installed on your machine. Learn mo…

How often do you reach for a profiler? Only when things go wrong, right? All too often, we use profilers only as a last resort, even though dotTrace and dotMemory are both pleasant to work with. What if we told you that Dynamic Program Analysis (DPA) in ReSharper automatically analyzes the memory us…

Hello everyone, Welcome to the early access program of our third release of the year, Rider 2020.3. The highlights of the first EAP build include more advanced C# 9 support, new debugger features, and UX improvements. Let’s look into the details. UX improvements The most obvious update is …

It seems that a common problem among profiling tools (including ours) is that they require too much effort from a developer. Profiling currently is seen as some kind of a last resort for when something has gone horribly wrong. The use of profilers is very episodic and chaotic, and it's quite often i…