Rachel Appel

Rachel Appel is a Developer Advocate at JetBrains focusing on .NET, Azure, and web development technologies. She has been in the business of creating software for nearly 30 years as an author, mentor

.NET Annotated | May 2020

Spring has sprung! So has the era of virtual conferences! Now that everyone is locked down and online, there's many to choose from. Check out some of the online options you have for virtual training and information in this month's .NET Annotated newsletter! In the meantime, this month in computi...

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Smart Step Into Enabled by Default and More Debugger Updates in Rider 2020.1

Rider 2020.1 [https://master.dev.blog.intellij.net/dotnet/2020/02/19/rider-2020-1-roadmap/] has a lot of excellent features in store for you! In this post, we will look at how Smart Step Into lets us step into methods we're actually interested in, some UI updates that help reduce mental context...

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Write Regular Expressions Easily with Rider

Regular expressions enable people to locate data inside of strings based on pattern matching. Regardless of the programming language, regular expressions (RegEx), are quite useful and powerful, though often disliked. That’s because they have a reputation for being difficult to work with. If you’...

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.NET Annotated Monthly | April 2020

On April 6th, 1992, Microsoft released Windows 3.1 to the world [https://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/april/6/#microsoft-releases-windows-3.1]! Meanwhile, in 2020, the world is struggling and trying to deal with a global pandemic. I hope everyone is able to stay at home, safe and healthy. Please ...

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Publishing applications to IIS, Azure, AWS and more - using Rider!

Shipping is a feature! At JetBrains, we love to ship software. We like it so much we release EAP versions [https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/eap] of software in addition to stable releases [https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/download]. Whether it’s to the cloud, on an in-house networked server, or els...

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.NET Annotated Monthly | March 2020

What happened in March in computing history? March 1986: Microsoft went public [https://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/march/13/#microsoft-goes-public]. Bill Gates was only 30 years old and the deal was for $350 million. This really got the ball rolling, setting the path for Microsoft's domination...

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19 February 2020

Rider 2020.1 Roadmap

We’d like to share our plans for Rider 2020.1 with you and find out what we can do next to improve your development experience. Your feedback is always welcome! For the 2020 release, we've been burning through the Great Ticket Close-out! We have been fixing bugs and implementing features [https:...

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11 February 2020

.NET Annotated Monthly | February 2020

In February 1991, Sun Microsystems brought Java technology to the world [https://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/february/1/#sun-microsystems-starts-java-technology] ! In 1996, Deep Blue was the first computer program to beat Gary Kasparov [https://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/february/10/#deep-blue...

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16 January 2020

New color highlighting features in ReSharper 2019.3

Starting from ReSharper 2019.3 [https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper], we added more colors settings for highlighting code from Tools | Options | Fonts and Colors to adjust code highlighting more precisely. Let’s take a look at the new color options that are available! Before getting started, ma...

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06 January 2020

.NET Annotated Monthly | January 2020

And here we are, turning over a new year. Happy new year, everyone! Apple has made a lot of news in January over the years. The company itself incorporated in January 1977 [https://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/january/3/#apple-computer,-inc.-is-incorporated] . Later, Apple introduced the Lisa c...

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19 December 2019

File bug and feature reports effectively and easily

This may seem basic to some, but a significant number of bug reports are difficult for the product developers to understand, because they are missing information, are vague or poorly written. Some users report problems with software but leave out important, large, details. Others might not like c...

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04 December 2019

.NET Annotated Monthly | December 2019

Did you know? In December, 1968 The CDC 7600 supercomputer was announced [https://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/december/3/#cdc-announces-7600-supercomputer] . This computer was enormous compared to today's machines at 188 cm (74 in) tall and 302 cm (119 in) wide! But it paved the way for modern d...

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