The Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern is inarguably a successful approach to building web applications. The design gained popularity in many tech communities, implemented in frameworks like Ruby on Rails, Django, and Spring. Since April 2, 2009, Microsoft has offered developers the ability to create MVC pattern web applications with the release of ASP.NET MVC. The approach leans heavily on the ideas of convention over configuration, and with conventions come ceremony. The ceremony can come with an overhead not necessary for less complicated apps. With the release of .NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET

Folks who use your software want to-the-second updates. Especially in a business setting, where people need to get things done, and get them done at "the speed of business". Company dashboards showing sales and their projections often need information to be available in real-time to really get that competitive advantage. Even users of personal apps such as social networking want to see replies and reactions immediately. Mom and dad don't want to waste a second waiting on those pictures of their grandkids! And as developers, we want to provide those features for them! This post shows you how

The recording of our February 13 webinar, Background Tasks Without a Separate Service: Hangfire for ASP.NET, with Matthew D. Groves, is now available. Subscribe to our community newsletter to receive notifications about future webinars. If you’re a web developer, eventually you’ll need to do some background processing. This has often meant running separate daemons, services, or Cron jobs, potentially complicating your integration and deployment. With Hangfire, you can create background tasks that run right inside the same .​NET or .​NET Core application. Hangfire background tasks can sc

In 2019, we held our first JetBrains .NET Day Online – a free virtual event where community speakers covered topics they are passionate about, ranging from deep technical .NET content and speakers’ experiences with specific tools and technologies to personal development. We want to repeat the event this year on May 14, 2020 - hosting several webinars with community speakers, back to back. Right now, we are looking for speakers interested in presenting with us! We'll highlight you as a speaker and any resources you may want to share, such as your blog, open source projects, onl

Join us Thursday, February 13, 2020, 16:00 - 17:00 CET (10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST or check other timezones) for our free live webinar, Background Tasks Without a Separate Service: Hangfire for ASP.NET, with Matthew D. Groves. Register now! If you’re a web developer, eventually you’ll need to do some background processing. This has often meant running separate daemons, services, or Cron jobs, potentially complicating your integration and deployment. With Hangfire, you can create background tasks that run right inside the same .​NET or .​NET Core application. Hangfire background tasks can scale

The recording of our November 26 webinar, Building an ASP.NET Core app from start to finish with Rachel Appel, is now available. Subscribe to our community newsletter to receive notifications about future webinars. Do you want to learn how to build a complete CRUD web application using the newest features in ASP.NET Core? In this session, you’ll learn how to construct an ASP.NET Core app from start to finish. We’ll look at building an EF Core model and use it in Razor Pages with Tag Helpers. You’ll also learn how to create middleware, configure the app and its startup. Finally, we wi

ASP.NET Core is Microsoft’s latest version of its web development framework. It enables developers to build full stack web apps that are maintainable and scalable. This post covers a few basics about building ASP.NET Core web apps with Rider such as models, view models and controllers. It also covers navigating through our code base and inspecting our code at runtime using the debugger, then publishing the application. (more…)

While the JetBrains team was at NDC Sydney last week, an interesting question was asked by one of the contributors of the XamlStyler project: "Should we write a plugin for Rider if we want to use our tool with it?" That's a bit of a loaded question, as there are many reasons for answering that with a yes, but there are also reasons for answering with one of those lesser-known features in Rider: external tools! In this blog post, let's see how we can configure Rider with a new action that would run an external tool, and perform any task we need. (more…)

Join us Monday, November 25, 2019, 16:00 - 17:00 CET (10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST or check other timezones) for our free live webinar, Building an ASP.NET Core app from start to finish, with Rachel Appel. Register now! Do you want to learn how to build a complete CRUD web application using the newest features in ASP.NET Core? In this session, you’ll learn how to construct an ASP.NET Core app from start to finish. We’ll look at building an EF Core model and use it in Razor Pages with Tag Helpers. You’ll also learn how to create middleware, configure the app and its startup. Finally, we will wr

Ahhh, September. It’s such a great month that it’s been memorialized in a popular song by Earth, Wind, and Fire. In many places, school starts again and autumn will soon be upon us (for the north half of the world). As the weather becomes milder, it’s nice to sit outside and catch up on some technical reading. Besides, once the kids go back to school you can actually get some reading done. (more…)

Please welcome Rider 2019.2.2, which delivers about 60 fixed requests. Here are the most significant fixes: (more…)

Hello everyone, We have good news for you today – Rider 2019.2 is released and ready for you to download! Here are the biggest and best things about Rider 2019.2: (more…)