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11 May 2020

A Story About .csproj, Large Solutions and Memory Usage

We discussed the motivations and our push toward running Rider on .NET Core [https://master.dev.blog.intellij.net/dotnet/2020/04/14/net-core-performance-revolution-rider-2020-1/] in our previous post. As part of that effort, we are looking into converting projects in the ReSharper and Rider solu...

Maarten Balliauw

• 8 min read

07 May 2020

Rider 2020.1.2 and ReSharper Ultimate 2020.1.2 Bugfixes Are Available!

After publishing the hotfixes last week, it’s now time for regular bugfix updates. We’re pleased to present Rider 2020.1.2 [https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/download/] and ReSharper Ultimate 2020.1.2 [https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/download/]. I’ve collected some of the most important fixes ...

Alexander Kurakin

• 2 min read

06 May 2020

.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...

Rachel Appel

• 3 min read

30 April 2020

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...

Rachel Appel

• 3 min read

29 April 2020

Rider 2020.1.1 and ReSharper Ultimate 2020.1.1 Hotfixes Are Available!

We’ve published two hotfix updates, Rider 2020.1.1 [https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/download/] and ReSharper Ultimate 2020.1.1 [https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/download/]. Here are the fixes we’ve added with each of them. ReSharper Ultimate 2020.1.1 * Visual Studio no longer hangs when scro...

Alexander Kurakin

• 1 min read

27 April 2020

How Socket Error Codes Depend on Runtime and Operating System

This post is the first part of a blog post series that covers different technical challenges that we had to resolve during the migration of the Rider backend process from Mono to .NET Core. By sharing our experiences, we hope to help out those who are in the same boat. There’s too much to share i...

Andrey Akinshin

• 13 min read

24 April 2020

NUKE - Designing a build system with IDE support in mind - Webinar Recording

The recording of our April 21 webinar, NUKE - Designing a build system with IDE support in mind, with Matthias Koch [https://twitter.com/matkoch87], is now available. Subscribe to our community newsletter [https://www.jetbrains.com/community/newsletters/] to receive notifications about future web...

Maarten Balliauw

• 2 min read

23 April 2020

Join us for JetBrains .NET Days Online – A virtual .NET event on May 13–14, 2020

We invite you to join a free virtual event, JetBrains .NET Days Online [https://pages.jetbrains.com/dotnet-days-2020/blog], taking place Wednesday and Thursday, May 13 and 14, 13:00–21:30 CEST (07:00–15:30 EDT – check your time zone [https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/event?lid=12%2C14%2C5%2C8&h=12&s...

Alexandra Kolesova

• 1 min read

22 April 2020

Rider for Unreal Engine Public Preview Starts Now!

Hi all, Today we are launching the Rider for Unreal Engine Public Preview! This marks another important step toward making Rider a standalone, all-in-one, cross-platform Game Dev IDE! In this post I will describe the tool and how you can try it, but first, let me briefly go through the family o...

Anastasia Kazakova

• 10 min read

20 April 2020

Nullable Reference Types: Migrating a Codebase – A Look at New Language Features in C# 8

It's been a while since our last post in this C# 8 language features series. Before we jump into nullable reference types, here is a quick (updated) recap of our roadmap: * Indices, Ranges, and Null-coalescing Assignments [https://master.dev.blog.intellij.net/dotnet/2019/04/24/indices-ranges...

Matthias Koch

• 5 min read

16 April 2020

Rider 2020.1 Is Released!

Hello everyone, We’ve published Rider 2020.1 [https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/download/] today! Let’s talk about the most important updates we have for you in this release. The backend runs on .NET Core runtime Finally, the backend runs on .NET Core runtime by default on macOS and Linux, instea...

Alexander Kurakin

• 4 min read

16 April 2020

ReSharper Ultimate 2020.1: Improved Support for C# 8.0 and C++20, Dataflow Analysis of Integer Values, and Much More

Hello everyone, ReSharper Ultimate 2020.1 [https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/download/?utm_medium=blog_post] is now available! We encourage you to try out the first major update this year. Read about the release highlights in this blog post, or visit our What’s New page [https://www.jetbrains....

Alexandra Kolesova

• 4 min read

14 April 2020

.NET Core performance revolution in Rider 2020.1

Many Rider users may know that the IDE has two main processes [https://www.codemag.com/Article/1811091/Building-a-.NET-IDE-with-JetBrains-Rider] : frontend (Java-application based on the IntelliJ platform) and backend (.NET-application based on ReSharper). Since the first release of Rider, we’ve ...

Andrey Akinshin

• 9 min read

08 April 2020

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’...

Rachel Appel

• 3 min read

01 April 2020

.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 ...

Rachel Appel

• 4 min read

01 April 2020

Purging Technical Debt By Using Static Code Analysis Tools - Webinar Recording

The recording of our March 26 webinar, Purging the Technical Debt By Using Static Code Analysis Tools, with Brian Di Croce [https://twitter.com/bdicroce], is now available. Subscribe to our community newsletter [https://www.jetbrains.com/community/newsletters/] to receive notifications about futu...

Maarten Balliauw

• 2 min read

31 March 2020

Auto-Detect Memory Issues in your App with Dynamic Program Analysis - Rider 2020.1

It seems that a common problem among profiling tools (including ours) is that they require too much effort from a developer. Profiling currently is seen as some kind of a last resort for when something has gone horribly wrong. The use of profilers is very episodic and chaotic, and it's quite ofte...

Alexey Totin

• 4 min read

30 March 2020

Webinar - NUKE - Designing a build system with IDE support in mind

Join us Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 16:00 - 17:00 CEST (10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT or check other timezones [https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?qm=1&lid=12,5,8&h=12&date=2020-04-21&sln=16-17] ) for our free live webinar [https://info.jetbrains.com/rider-resharper-webinar-april-2020.html], NUKE - Designin...

Maarten Balliauw

• 1 min read

24 March 2020

Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms comes to Rider

The Rider team has been hard at work, and we are happy to announce that Xamarin.Forms XAML Hot Reload is coming in Rider 2020.1 [https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/nextversion/]! In this post, we'll see how this makes developing our Xamarin apps more enjoyable. We'll also walk through some of the ...

Khalid Abuhakmeh

• 4 min read

17 March 2020

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...

Rachel Appel

• 3 min read