The JetBrains .NET team would like to invite you to our Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Reddit at r/dotnet. Reddit is home to a thriving .NET community that we’d like to engage and hear feedback from, in addition to the many other channels of communication we’ve been using. You can ask us anything about our family of .NET products, the technologies we work with, our .NET team, or JetBrains in general. We’ll try to give you the best answers we can. Ask us a question We’re going to answer all your questions on Reddit on January 21, from 3 PM CET to 7 PM CET (9 AM – 1 PM EST) (visit this page

Hello everyone, From time to time, even a bugfix update needs an urgent hotfix update. Last week we published Rider 2020.3.1, which fixed several hot issues from the 2020.3 release. Unfortunately, we re-introduced the RIDER-54983 issue that affected all the icons from the plugins. The icons couldn't be displayed in the code editor, including icons in the code completion popup, on the left margin, in Code Vision, etc. This is why we’re releasing the hotfix Rider 2020.3.2 to resolve that issue. You will get an update notification shortly in Rider or in the Toolbox App. As for ReSharper 2020.3.2,

We’ve published the first bug-fix updates for both ReSharper and Rider. Let’s look at the most important changes. ReSharper 2020.3.1 Fixed the issues with spaces being added instead of a virtual indent (RSRP-482555). Fixed the incorrect ‘Parameter type can be IEnumerable<>’ suggestion for records (RSRP-482503). Fixed Tab behavior (RSRP-482481). Fixed the false warning about the init-only property in a readonly struct (RSRP-482228) The full list of fixed issues in ReSharper 2020.3.1 is available in our bug tracker. Rider 2020.3.1 Fixed the issue with pausing Unity at the break

Time to get excited: dotCover 2020.3 is here! Get ready for quality-of-life improvements such as coverage filtering by target framework, different build modes for continuous testing, updates to provide better coverage highlighting, command-line tooling enhancements, and more! Let's have a look. (more…)

Hello everyone, We’ve just published the 2020.2.5 bugfix release for our dotnet tools – ReSharper, ReSharper C++, Rider, dotCover, dotMemory, dotTrace, and dotPeek. The main reason for this release is that we wanted Rider to run smoothly on macOS Big Sur. We fixed some issues that were preventing Rider from correctly opening and debugging projects on the new macOS Big Sur (the whole list is available in our bug tracker). Unfortunately, because all our dotnet tools share the same Deploy button, updates to all the tools will be published, however, the only one that has any changes is Rider. Sor

Ah, December. A great month! It provides us with some downtime, there are a number of holidays, and it's the month where I turn 37. December also brings a chance to look back at the past year, and that's exactly what we wanted to do in this blog post: look back at our 2020 webinars, and look forward to 2021. 🤔 JetBrains Webinars? Each month, we try to bring you at least one session where community speakers cover the topics they are passionate about. This year we have seen deep technical .NET content, open source tools, methodology, and some topics around personal development. Speakers

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

The recording of our webinar, Tips & Tricks to improve your .NET Build Setup with MSBuild, with Martin Ullrich, is now available. Subscribe to our community newsletter to receive notifications about future webinars. MSBuild is the powerful - now open source - build system used in all .NET Builds. It has a language of its own and allows you to customize most parts of your build. For growing code bases the requirements to the build and deployment setup of your project(s) increase as well, so in this session I want to show you a few Tips & Tricks to make working with .NET projects easier

As developers, we love tools. But often, too much tooling gets in the way when trying to develop applications quickly. Have you ever been ripping through code when you want to refactor or do a common task, but just can’t find the command for it because there are too many distractions? It’s very frustrating! Let’s take a look at how ReSharper brings back simplicity when using an IDE, with its famous Context Actions - or Alt+Enter - the small but mighty problem-solving shortcut. And keep in mind: Rider builds on top of ReSharper, so these features work there, too! Enter, Alt+Enter! Context Actio

With the .NET 5 release comes the newest Entity Framework Core version, unsurprisingly called Entity Framework Core 5 (EF Core 5). The .NET community got its first glimpse of Entity Framework (EF) on August 11th, 2008, with the release of .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. Let's say a few things have changed since the initial release. For those unfamiliar with the technology, Entity Framework is an object-relational mapper (ORM), helping developers overcome the impedance mismatches between C# and a database instance's schema. Entity Framework has come a long way since its original inception.

As developers, we're in a neverending struggle to find a balance between style and substance. The tabs vs. spaces argument even found its way into pop culture during Season 3 of HBO's Silicon Valley. We understand that style can be a point of debate within teams. While the codebase's style might not impact the runtime execution of applications, it can have measurable impacts on team productivity. With Rider's latest release, we will empower developers to auto-detect and configure their coding style preferences in a few simple steps, and maybe, avoid a few heated debates on style. Let's take a

Join us Thursday, December 10, 2020, 16:00 - 17:00 CET (10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST or check other timezones) for our free live webinar, Tips & Tricks to improve your .NET Build Setup with MSBuild, with Martin Ullrich. Register now and get a reminder, or join on YouTube MSBuild is the powerful - now open source - build system used in all .NET Builds. It has a language of its own and allows you to customize most parts of your build. For growing code bases the requirements to the build and deployment setup of your project(s) increase as well, so in this session I want to show you a few Tips &

The recording of our webinar, .NET Microservices == MEGAFUN, with LaBrina Loving, is now available. Subscribe to our community newsletter to receive notifications about future webinars. In this session, I will provide an overview of getting started with building and deploying Microservices. We'll explore using services like Dapr and Project Tye to help build your microservices and look at how to deploy to Azure. (more…)

Today we would like to share with you a special guest post from our friends over at Uno Platform. They have been working hard on bringing a first-class cross-platform experience to .NET developers everywhere. This post was originally writen by Kenzie Whalen-Dunn. With the release of Uno Platform 3.0, developers can now create multi-platform applications for desktop, mobile and web apps using Rider. For those new to Uno Platform – it enables for creation of pixel-perfect, single-source C# and XAML apps which run natively on Windows, iOS, Android, macOS, Linux and WebAssembly. Uno Platform is Op

One of the most exciting features in .NET 5 and C# 9 are source generators. They enable us to hook into the compilation pipeline that is executed for our projects, analyze source files that are to be compiled, and provide additional source code for our final assembly. In other words, we can take advantage of compile-time metaprogramming! Are you performing expensive reflection operations? Do you need to write a lot of boilerplate code like route mappings or builder methods? Source generators can make our lives a lot easier with these and many more scenarios that are yet to be discovered! Made

Hi-diddly-ho Blazorinos! A long-lived mantra of the .NET community has concentrated on transferable knowledge of C# into different paradigms, including desktop, mobile, web, and embedded systems. Blazor continues that trend of using what we know to build new and exciting solutions. Blazor has recently garnered a lot of buzz in our industry, focusing on bringing C# programming to frontend HTML experiences. In this post, we'll go one step further and see how we can embed Blazor into an Electron app to ship Blazor on the desktop. We'll also look at how we can debug our Electron application using

Azure Functions is a cloud technology from Microsoft. It helps individuals and companies from startups to mega-corporations, since they all have these few things in common: Code that doesn’t fit into traditional or popular application architectures. Code that must run based on some event that happens. Software that must integrate with other software. And this is where Azure Functions can help. So in this blog post, we’ll review what Azure Functions are and how they can help you, as well as demonstrate the basics of building an Azure Function app. Azure Functions Overview An Azure function is

In the latest Rider 2020.3 Early Access Preview (EAP) builds, we're bringing in Project Dependency Diagrams from ReSharper! With project dependency diagrams you can visualize project dependencies in your solution, and explore its architecture. In this post, we'll have a look at what project dependency diagrams look like, what information they show, and how we can use them to analyze project coupling in a solution. Hello, project dependency diagrams! You can open the project dependency diagram from the context menu in solution explorer, or by using the Tools | Architecture | Show Project Diagra

The recording of our webinar, Blazor - C# in the Browser, with Brian Jablonsky, is now available. Subscribe to our community newsletter to receive notifications about future webinars. Ever dream about being able to write your web frontend code in C#? Blazor might be your answer! It lets you write your frontend code using C# and Razor. In this session, we'll take a look at what Blazor is, how Blazor works, the difference between Blazor hosting models and how it relates to WebAssembly, and build a Blazor web app using Rider. (more…)

How's it going, fellow Blazorinos? Here at JetBrains, we've been diving face-first into Blazor, improving the development experience for Blazor lovers. For those unfamiliar with Blazor, but still familiar with front-end web development, you can think of Blazor as a front-end framework similar to VueJs or React. Blazor allows developers to build interactive user interfaces (UI) using C#, Razor, and SignalR. Introduced in ASP.NET Core 3, the architecture of Blazor leverages shareable C# code, which can run on the server and client. Developers can also expect to ship self-contained, fully running