Brace yourself! Another highly requested feature request was finally resolved – Support for T4 Text Templates. For those folks who don’t know what it is: T4 stands for Text Template Transformation Toolkit – a mixture of code blocks and text that can generate new text files or even code (similar to Razor). T4 templates are very handy to generate output based on our project model or external databases. For instance, using linq2db we can easily generate POCOs based on a database schema to allow for fast and type-safe database accessing. (more…)

Hello everyone, We’ve reached the last release milestone for this year – please give a warm welcome to ReSharper Ultimate 2019.3! First, let’s take a brief look at the most important changes: (more…)

Hello everyone, October seems like a good time to launch the Early Access Program for our third release of the year, so please welcome ReSharper Ultimate 2019.3 EAP. In the list below, I highlight several new features and improvements of the ReSharper 2019.3 EAP: Improved C# 8 support including notnull constraint, the target-typed switch expressions, early support for default interface methods, a new hint "Local function can be static", and a new quick-fix "Add missing arms". New Type Name Hints are available for lambda’s parameters, all var occurrences incl

We’ve just published a hotfix for ReSharper Ultimate 2019.2. ReSharper 2019.2.1 contains several hot-fixes with the two most important ones being: (more…)

With Rider 2019.2 released, we're also releasing an update to the Azure Toolkit for Rider release. Next to a number of bug fixes, we've implemented support for Cloud Shell Web Preview to access HTTP services running in the Cloud Shell container. We have made running individual Azure Functions easier, and added a number of live templates to help speed up coding. The Azure Explorer now lets us explore Azure Resource Groups, and edit & deploy ARM templates. (more…)

Using live templates and file templates can improve coding efficiency a lot while dealing with repetitive content, boilerplate code and language ceremony. For everyone who hasn’t heard of them: In previous versions, we could already invoke existing templates. However, seventy developers can’t be wrong that editing templates in Rider is one of the most wanted features we miss from good ol’ ReSharper times - besides dotCover integration of course! Today we are pleased to announce that the necessary changes have been merged to Rider 2018.2. Be ready to browse and edit live templates and fi

Sometimes, the little things matter. Our latest Rider 2018.2 EAP (Early Access Preview) build comes with several of those: there's a Generate GUID tool, which generates a globally unique identifier we can use in our code. For C# and VB.NET, we now display colored parameter information in lookup item popups. Run/Debug configurations now support setting custom runtime arguments. In this blog post, let's go over a few of these! The Generate GUID tool Whenever we need a GUID in our code, we can generate one from the Tools | Generate Guid... menu: Rider provides us with several GUID format

A fresh build of Rider 2018.1 EAP just landed, adding Entity Framework support! Rider adds functionality to enable migrations, add a migration, get migrations, update the database and more! On Windows, Linux and macOS! Let's check this out, shall we? Initializing Entity Framework and enabling migrations After installing the EntityFramework NuGet package, we can initialize Entity Framework in our project from the project context menu, under Tools | Entity Framework | Initial setup. After confirming we want to initialize Entity Framework, Rider will add the necessary entries into our Ap

ReSharper (and Rider) have always provided a wide range of code inspections to notify us about redundancies in code, potential code quality issues or common practices. In the next 4 blog posts, we will dive into a bunch of new features related to that: How can ReSharper help us to further increase readability? How does it integrate with other approaches in the .NET ecosystem? And what are the different ways of configuring that? In this series: Maintaining consistent code style with formatting inspections Configuring inspection severities with EditorConfig Code style settings from Ro

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 project in Rider, we can select the WPF Application project type to start from. Just like with any other project template, we can configure a number of things like the solution and project name, the targ

Our latest and greatest ReSharper Ultimate 2017.3 has just received the second bugfix update – download ReSharper Ultimate 2017.3.2! We added more than 100 fixes in this build. Here are the notable changes: (more…)

Since the first Rider 2017.3 EAP build a few weeks back, we've made a number of incremental changes and improvements to project templates in Rider. When creating a new solution or project, Rider gives us a number of templates by default: Instead of grouping templates by language, Rider now groups project templates by framework. This reduces the length of the list of project templates and makes it easier to find what we are after. Rider comes with templates for .NET, .NET Core (if installed on our system) and Xamarin. For every framework, we can specify a series of options: Solution