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We discussed the motivations and our push toward running Rider on .NET Core in our previous post. As part of that effort, we are looking into converting projects in the ReSharper and Rider solution to using the new, simpler, SDK-based projects introduced with .NET Core. In this post, we will see why we want to do this migration. We'll talk about how we ran into some development-time issues when using the newer project style with large solutions, and how that led into finding a similar issue with the "old .csproj" format. We'll also share a workaround with you. Let's dive in! (more…)

Last time we talked about ReSharper out of process, we took a (very long!) look at the magnitude of the task. It’s a massively complex job, re-architecturing an application with 14 years worth of assumptions of COM based APIs into an asynchronous cross process model. That post details the complexity of moving the project model out of process - migrating from calling Visual Studio’s COM APIs on the UI thread, to using the MSBuild APIs in a separate process. This is now done, and has been the default way we manage the list of projects, files and references since ReSharper 2019.2. As we've

Late last month, .NET Framework 4.8 was released. It comes with several enhancements to support Per-Monitor V2 DPI Awareness (PMv2) and Mixed-Mode DPI hosting in both Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). PMv2 makes it possible for controls to change their DPI dynamically. For example, when we move a window to a monitor with a different scale factor and DPI configuration, or when connecting to a remote desktop (RDP) session from a display with another DPI, we’ll see smooth and crisp rendering. When using at least the Windows 10 April 2018 Update together with the lates

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 inline parameter hints? When using a literal in a method call, ReSharper and Rider will annotate those with the name of the parameter. This makes it much easier to understand what their value represents. For example, we can see that the string literal "\\s" here, represents the pattern of a regular expression: When ho

The latest versions of ReSharper 2018.2 and Rider 2018.2 come with support for C# 7.3. In this series, we are looking at these new language features in C# 7.3. Today we will look at the fixed pattern and simplified access to fixed size buffer elements. This post is part of a series: Declaration expressions in initializers and queries Tuple equality Unmanaged, delegate and enum type constraints Ref local re-assignment Fixed pattern and simplified access to fixed size buffer elements C# updates for stackalloc Fixed statement One of the common themes in C# 7.0 and the followi

The Early Access Preview (EAP) versions of ReSharper 2018.2 and Rider 2018.2 come with support for C# 7.3. In this series, we are looking at these new language features in C# 7.3. Today, we let's check out ref local re-assignment. This post is part of a series: Declaration expressions in initializers and queries Tuple equality Unmanaged, delegate and enum type constraints Ref local re-assignment Fixed pattern and simplified access to fixed size buffer elements C# updates for stackalloc Ref local re-assignment In C#, it's been possible for a while to work with references, u

Last time in our series about C# 7.3 language features, we covered tuple equality. Today we will look at unmanaged, delegate and enum type constraints. The latest Early Access Preview (EAP) versions of ReSharper 2018.2 and Rider 2018.2 come with language support for C# 7.3, do give them a try! This post is part of a series: Declaration expressions in initializers and queries Tuple equality Unmanaged, delegate and enum type constraints Ref local re-assignment Fixed pattern and simplified access to fixed size buffer elements C# updates for stackalloc Ever since C# 2.0, when g