Tag Archives: editor

Find your perfect coding style using Rider

Posted on July 30, 2019 by Rachel Appel

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 … Continue reading →

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Breadcrumbs, structural navigation, parameter info tooltips and more editor improvements in Rider 2019.1

Posted on April 11, 2019 by Matthias Koch

With the new Rider 2019.1 EAP builds, we bring more goodies to the editor that help us navigating and understanding our code much faster. This includes the popular breadcrumbs navigation, structural navigation originally introduced with ReSharper, revised summary and parameter … Continue reading →

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Inline parameter name hints for C# and VB.NET in ReSharper and Rider

Posted on November 27, 2018 by Maarten Balliauw

When editing code in the latest builds of ReSharper 2018.3 EAP and Rider 2018.3 EAP,  the inline parameter hints for C# and VB.NET are something you will notice immediately. Let’s see how this new feature makes code more readable, and how we can configure it. What are … Continue reading →

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ReSharper 2017.3 brings the debugger into the editor

Posted on November 21, 2017 by Maarten Balliauw

While debugging, we often have to work with lots of information. We have the autos, locals and watches tool window to look at, code in our editor, … This overdose of information and switching between looking at code and at … Continue reading →

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F# support improvements in Rider 2017.2

Posted on October 10, 2017 by Maarten Balliauw

Rider 2017.2 EAP builds come with a series of new features and improvements around F#, such as code folding, commenting with block comment, debugger expression evaluation on hover, support for XML docs in tooltips and more! Many visible improvements were made, as well as “invisible” … Continue reading →

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Local History in Rider: undo and redo on steroids

Posted on May 17, 2017 by Maarten Balliauw

We’ve all been there. Investigating a bug, making some code changes, then finding that these changes don’t fix the bug. Rinse, repeat, and two hours later we realize that first attempt needed just a little tweak. How can we roll … Continue reading →

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Working with TODO items in Rider

Posted on May 11, 2017 by Maarten Balliauw

Usually, coding and review tasks are logged in an issue tracker like YouTrack, JIRA or Visual Studio Team Services, all systems that can be connected to from within JetBrains Rider. But what with those typical TODO comments? Do they go into … Continue reading →

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Rider EAP 21: F# support, bundled TFS plugin and more

Posted on April 27, 2017 by Maarten Balliauw

A new Rider EAP build is available for download! In this Rider EAP 21, we’ve fixed a number of bugs, bundled the TFS plugin to make working with TFS and VSTS easier, added detection of existing file indents for editing, added highlighting … Continue reading →

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Language injections in Rider

Posted on March 21, 2017 by Maarten Balliauw

Just like ReSharper, Rider supports language injections. In almost every project there are cases where we want to (or have to) embed a piece of code in a string literal. For example, pieces of HTML inside a JavaScript string, or a quick … Continue reading →

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Smart Paste in Rider

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Maarten Balliauw

Today, I’d like to introduce you to Smart Paste, a “little big feature” in Rider (as well as in ReSharper). It ensures the right escaping in string literals that are copy/pasted. For example, consider pasting The “Name” field is required into var error … Continue reading →

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