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Hot Reload for .NET 6 in Rider 2021.3

With JetBrains Rider 2021.3, you can now take advantage of Hot Reload if you are targeting .NET 6! You can make targeted changes in the IDE and apply the changes directly against a running process. Improved feedback loops are an integral part of the modern development story. Shortened times between a code change and it being reflected in our application's output can make or break our flow. Hot

Khalid Abuhakmeh Khalid Abuhakmeh

Case Study – How Innoveo builds a no-code solution with Rider

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been chatting with Laurent Kempé, Team Leader & Distinguished Solution Architect at Innoveo. They are using JetBrains Rider to write code for their no-code platform. Let’s take a look at their journey…

Maarten Balliauw Maarten Balliauw

XAML Preview Tool Improvements in Rider 2021.1 EAP

In the latest Rider 2021.1 Early Access Preview (EAP), we're helping .NET developers have the best development experience in building Windows-native applications. We've improved the XAML Preview tool, an essential feedback mechanism for WPF and XAML developers. Introduced in Rider 2018.1, the XAML preview tool window for WPF (on Windows) allows developers to preview the results of their XAML chang

Khalid Abuhakmeh Khalid Abuhakmeh

ReSharper Ultimate 2018.1.1 bug fix update is here!

Hello from JetBrains! We have something interesting for you today. A few moments ago, we published the first bug fix update for our first release of the year - ReSharper Ultimate 2018.1.1. Below, you can find a list of the notable changes: (more…)

Alexander Kurakin Alexander Kurakin

XAML preview tool window for WPF in Rider

A fresh new build of Rider 2018.1 EAP just landed with many new additions. There was already a WPF Application project template, and we have now added a XAML preview tool window for WPF (on Windows)! When working in a WPF window or control, we can preview the results of any change we make in XAML code directly in Rider. Let's check it out! WPF Application project template When creating a new pro

Maarten Balliauw Maarten Balliauw

Fighting Common WPF Memory Leaks with dotMemory

When developing Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Silverlight and Windows Store applications, a number of common memory leaks may surface. In this blog post, we’ll see how dotMemory can help detect these common WPF memory leaks and how we can fix them. Here are the leaks we will discuss in this post: Binding leak Collection binding leak Textbox undo leak Event Handler leak x:Na

Maarten Balliauw Maarten Balliauw

INotifyPropertyChanged Support in ReSharper 7

Let's see what's good in ReSharper 7 in addition to support for Visual Studio 2012 and WinRT development. Ever since the release of Windows Forms, the INotifyPropertyChanged interface has been used by developers to allow properties to notify whoever needs to know (typically, the UI) that they have changed. Support for change notification, which nowadays appears in many core (WPF, Silverlight) and

Dmitri Nesteruk Dmitri Nesteruk