Join us Wednesday, October 14, 2020, 16:00 - 17:00 CEST (10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT or check other timezones) for our free live webinar, Service Creation via .NET Core Templates, with Olga Nelioubov. Register now and get a reminder, or join on YouTube Custom .NET templates are a fantastic way to bootstrap your .NET services, however they're not only limited to the .NET world – their usefulness could extend to templating out pipelines, applications in other languages, configuration files, or anything else that can be opened with a text editor. Furthermore, they are extremely simple to set up and c

Dear everyone, Today is bug-fix day! We’ve addressed several issues in both ReSharper and Rider and published the ReSharper 2020.2.3 and Rider 2020.2.3 builds. ReSharper 2020.2.3  ReSharper no longer freezes Visual Studio when the Favorite Documents extension is installed (RSRP-481224). Now you have more precise control over which Visual Studio actions can be overridden by ReSharper on the ReSharper | Options | Environment | Keyboard | Visual Studio Commands page. Rider 2020.2.3  Breakpoint icons no longer disappear from the code editor (RIDER-48535). There are a few fixes in F# support relat

The recording of our webinar, Xamarin, MAUI and the reactive MVVM between them, with Rodney Littles, II, is now available. Subscribe to our community newsletter to receive notifications about future webinars. Xamarin Forms is the .NET cross platform technology that allows you to write an application in C# and target various operating systems, primarily mobile. The recommended architectural approach for .NET applications adhering to SOLID principles is Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM). ReactiveUI is a MVVM framework based on Reactive Extensions, which are a cross language approach to functional pro

Hello folks! With the Rider 2020.2 release out of the door, we're looking toward the future. After sharing our ReSharper 2020.3 plans earlier this week, we'll now look at our plans for Rider 2020.3. Your feedback is welcome and encouraged. The following is a set of highlighted features our team is currently working on. Let's get started. .NET 5 – Our plan is to put significant time and effort to support the upcoming release of .NET 5. While development is possible in Rider today with .NET 5, it is incomplete. .NET 5 is the future of .NET, and we want to help developers get there. More Perform

New bug-fix updates are available for both ReSharper and Rider. Here’s an overview of the most important changes that have been made. ReSharper 2020.2.2 Fixed a couple of false positives in nullable analysis. Fixed the default implementation of an interface from a referenced package. It is now recognized correctly (RSRP-480835). Fixed the 'Current directory' for unit tests. It is now set to the test project's 'bin' directory. Other unit testing issues that have been fixed are described below in the Rider section. The rest of the issues and details are available in ReSharper's bug tracker. Ri

Today we are introducing a new type of dataflow code analysis in ReSharper and Rider. We’ve gathered some statistics (by exploring the IL metadata of a large number of NuGet.org packages with an OSS license) and noticed that int is one of the most commonly used types for local variables. That's why this new analysis tracks the usage of values of the int type in your programs. It tracks the flow of integer values through your programs to detect useless or possibly erroneous pieces of code. It warns you about the following issues: Relational/equality operators that always evaluate to true or f

We've just released the Azure Toolkit for Rider 2020.2, and want to share what's new. On the feature side, you can now work with the Azurite storage emulator from within Rider. If you're developing Azure Functions, we've added code completion for timer triggers, and now auto-detect the core tools if you already have them installed. Log streaming for web- and function apps has been added, so you can see what is going on in your application from within Rider. We have also been working on our plugin infrastructure, and fixed a number of bugs. Let's have a look! Azurite storage emulator If you are

The recording of our August 25 webinar, REST - the ignored parts, with Irina Scurtu, is now available. Subscribe to our community newsletter to receive notifications about future webinars. In a world dominated by APIs, where everyone seems to implement microservices with so many paradigms and standards to choose from, REST seems to be the default option. Despite that, many of these so-called REST APIs don’t respect the guidelines and become brittle by overlooking some of the most powerful constraints. In this session, we will look over how we can design a REST API that is flexible and evolvab

If you are already using nullable reference types, you might have noticed that they can help make your code safer. But not automagically... This feature relies heavily on everything called by your code being annotated. Unannotated APIs are a big problem for nullable reference types, as they never produce warnings. Values from such calls show extremely optimistic non-null hints, even though there are no guarantees that these hints are correct. Here's a compiler issue for this problem. For example, if you are using LINQ's FirstOrDefault() method from .NET Core 3.1, the compiler not only allows y

As you may know, our .NET and Visual Studio tools got a massive 2020.2 update just a few weeks ago – the ReSharper .NET tools, ReSharper C++ and Rider blogs have more details. Now our sights are set on the 2020.3 release due out at the end of this year. But before we get back to work on that, we have one more important thing to say. We are deeply grateful to all participants of our 2020.2 Early Access Program. You helped us identify countless issues, usability glitches, and missing features. Thank you so much! We’d like to share our special thanks with these fine folks who have been the most a

We’ve just published two hotfix updates, Rider 2020.2.1 and ReSharper 2020.2.1. Here are the highlights of what we’ve introduced. For the full list of changes, please refer to our bug tracker. Rider 2020.2.1 NuGet We’ve fixed the bug that caused all NuGet packages to be restored unnecessarily before building the project (RIDER-49125). Unit testing NUnit2 tests are no longer left in an Inconclusive state with System.NullReferenceException (RSRP-480840). The option to run NUnit tests from a specified folder now works correctly (RIDER-49367). The appsettings.json file is read correctly when ru

Hello friends, or should we say こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)? We have some excellent news for our multilingual Rider developers. Localization Manager, which previously appeared in ReSharper, is now available to all Rider users. We can build multi-cultural .NET applications, with the localizable resources using the new feature. To get started with the Localization Manager, we first need to add a resource file. In this post, we'll be using a  Greetings.resx file along with a  Greetings.ja-jp.resx to hold our Japanese translations. To open the resource editor, we can use Go to Action (Ctrl+Shift+A) and se

Join us Thursday, September 17, 2020, 16:00 - 17:00 CEST (10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT or check other timezones) for our free live webinar, Xamarin, MAUI and the reactive MVVM between them, with Rodney Littles, II. Register now and get a reminder, or join on YouTube Xamarin Forms is the .NET cross platform technology that allows you to write an application in C# and target various operating systems, primarily mobile. The recommended architectural approach for .NET applications adhering to SOLID principles is Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM). ReactiveUI is a MVVM framework based on Reactive Extensions, w

Rider 2020.2 has a lot of great new features for Unity, and debugging has certainly had its fair share of attention in this release. We’ve already introduced “pausepoints”, a new kind of breakpoint that puts the Unity editor into pause mode when a condition is met in code, allowing you to use the Unity Inspector to see what’s going on at that point. And in the last post, we saw how Rider can help you debug players, either standalone on the desktop, or on mobile devices and consoles, including USB support for Apple devices. Today, we’re going to look at a set of small features that will make a

Rider 2020.2 is now available! To mark this great news we’ve put together a full list of the new features and under the hood improvements that are in store for you. Let’s dive in! Download Rider 2020.2 Debugger The new release brings significant changes to the debugger API. They allow us to perform super-lazy value calculations with better interruption and custom value representation. We've also added data breakpoints. Finally, the Pin to Frame feature lets you pin local variables to the frame. Localization Manager We’re proud to introduce a new tool for working with resources. With the Lo

Rider 2020.2 is a bumper release for Unity. We’ve already seen how “pausepoints” can help you debug your code, by switching the Unity editor into pause mode when your code hits a certain point. Let’s continue looking at how Rider can help with your Unity application. We’ll stick with debugging for now, and in this post we’ll see how you can use Rider to debug your game on mobile devices and consoles such as iPhone, Android, Xbox and PlayStation. We’ll follow up with another post looking at how Rider improves the default display of values while debugging, and then we’ll have a couple more posts

With each passing day, the .NET ecosystem introduces new target environments. In addition to Windows environments, we can now deploy to Linux, macOS, and all popular mobile operating systems. Having these options is excellent, as it allows us to reach a broader audience, but each new environment comes with its own set of challenges. .NET Framework has solved the multiple-environments issue by creating the .NET Standard. The .NET Standard exposes a common API we can compile against with the understanding that our target environments have a context-specific implementation. In this post, we'll se

TypeScript enables you to code using object-oriented principles and techniques, and Rider helps you write TypeScript more efficiently and easily. In this blog post, we’ll look at the object-oriented features provided by the TypeScript language, and how to use Rider to implement them. (more…)

Where and when does a value in our program change? And what's the state of values in each iteration, when debugging recursive functions? Two good questions that Rider 2020.2 EAP helps answer, with Data Breakpoints and Pin-to-Frame! (more…)

Working with NuGet is an important part of every .NET project, and therefore its integration in Rider is one of our top priorities. Previously we introduced productivity boosts like import of missing packages, the NuGet quicklist and auto-display of README files. Now we want to show you some recent additions in the latest Rider 2020.2 EAP release. In this new version, we’ve added a new way to view implicit package references, extended the NuGet package list with a brand new context popup menu to access common operations, implemented a package search history, enhanced the config view with a pro