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

Join us Tuesday, November 17, 2020, 16:00 - 17:00 CET (10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST or check other timezones) for our free live webinar, .NET Microservices == MEGAFUN, with LaBrina Loving. Register now and get a reminder, or join on YouTube 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…)

The recording of our webinar, Service Creation via .NET Core Templates, with Olga Nelioubov, is now available. Subscribe to our community newsletter to receive notifications about future webinars. 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 can be easily packaged and distributed to others for

With the upcoming release of C# 9, we're all getting some new tools for our development toolboxes. One of the most exciting features .NET 5 is delivering to developers is top-level statements. In this post, we'll explore what top-level statements are, who they're useful for, the rules of top-level statement apps, and taking a peek at intermediate language (IL) generation. Gather round the virtual campfire 🏕, and let's explore this topic together. (more…)

A little bit of October's computing history: In 2001, Microsoft released Windows XP! Thank goodness for the chance to get away from Windows 98 & ME. Meanwhile, Apple was busy working on consumer products and had released the iPod. .NET news .NET Foundation All Hands - The .NET Foundation is holding its first ever public All Hands meeting. Guess who's hosting it? That's right, yours truly! Join in on October 13, ask questions and see what's going on in the world of .NET! Repo experience survey results NET Core Releases and Support Highlights The future of .NET Standard Announcing .NET 5.0

Hello everyone, Today we’ve published small bugfix updates to ReSharper and Rider. Here are the issues that we’ve addressed. Rider Fixed launching iOS apps on Xcode 12 simulators (RIDER-50673). ReSharper Fixed restoring unit test sessions with continuous testing: they now persist through solution reopening (RSRP-481297). dotTrace Fixed the ‘ETW collector internal error’ in Timeline profiling (DTRC-26888). You can download Rider 2020.2.4 and ReSharper 2020.2.4 from our website or update either of them by using the Toolbox App. You can also update Rider as a snap if you are using a compati

Most companies, both large and small still use XML, even if JSON has overtaken it in popularity. However, many are using it, for example to exchange data, or have configuration files that can contain comments (unlike JSON). Whatever your reason for using XML, Rider contains many great XML features that enable you to work with it more efficiently. In this blog post, we’ll look at using Rider to create and maintain perfectly well-formed XML, schemas, and more. Fortunately for us, Rider contains many great XML features that enable you to work with it more efficiently. In this blog post, we’ll loo

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 the redesigned Welcome screen. More is less: we’ve tried to make the first window you see in Rider as neat and uncluttered as possible. It offers only the most common operations. A long-awaited improvement has made it into the code editor: now you can split the editor by dragging and dropping

Join us Thursday, October 22, 2020, 16:00 - 17:00 CEST (10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT or check other timezones) for our free live webinar, Blazor - C# in the Browser, with Brian Jablonsky. Register now and get a reminder, or join on YouTube 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…)

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