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Engineers in various industries have adopted JetBrains Rider as their primary IDE for .NET development, citing improved experience and …
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What is Rider?
JetBrains supports .NET development with Rider, a .NET IDE based on the IntelliJ platform and ReSharper.
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$169
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$289
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What is Rider?
Rider is a cross-platform .NET IDE that helps to develop .NET, .NET Core, .NET Framework, ASP.NET, Unity, and Unreal Engine games, or Xamarin applications on Windows, Mac, and Linux. It provides editing support and code insight for languages used in .NET development including C#, F#, Razor/Blazor syntax, JavaScript, TypeScript, XAML, HTML, CSS, and SQL.
Rider includes 2500+ live code inspections, context actions and refactorings provided by ReSharper, and is combined with IntelliJ Platform’s IDE feature set. Though viewable as feature heavy, the vendor states that Rider is fast and responsive.
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| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
JetBrains supports .NET development with Rider, a .NET IDE based on the IntelliJ platform and ReSharper.
Rider starts at $14.9.
Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition, and DevExpress Universal are common alternatives for Rider.
The most common users of Rider are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Engineers in various industries have adopted JetBrains Rider as their primary IDE for .NET development, citing improved experience and productivity. For game development in Unreal, Rider has provided agility and reliability compared to other platforms. Users highly value the platform's IntelliSense capabilities, including Unreal Macros, and quick search features. In the Unity development community, Rider has become a popular replacement for Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and Visual Studio Mac. It is used extensively for both C# code development and debugging in Unity.
Rider has also found a place among backend web API developers utilizing ASP.NET Core. Users have found it to be a suitable alternative to Visual Studio Enterprise, enabling efficient development of web APIs. The IDE is also being used for application deployment and upgrades, including deploying applications into Azure and AWS. Additionally, Rider's compatibility with Linux desktops has made it an easy choice for those who prefer working on this operating system over Windows.
One of the standout features of Rider is its well-thought-out refactorings and code suggestions which contribute to cleaner and more readable code without any performance drawbacks experienced in Visual Studio. Users appreciate the smooth and stable performance of the IDE, allowing them to work without interruptions. The seamless experience provided by Rider includes features like helpful suggestions, database connections, and plugins that not only make tasks faster but also enhance overall code quality.
Overall, JetBrains Rider serves as a reliable IDE for developing, maintaining, and improving software products across a wide range of domains and use cases.
Users commonly recommend Rider for developers involved in the .NET tech stack because they find it to be a valuable investment. They also suggest trying out Rider for Python and Java development activities. Additionally, users recommend using Rider instead of Visual Studio for C# development, unless one is a die-hard Microsoft fan. Another recommendation is to compare Rider to Visual Studio and choose between the two based on personal habits and preferences. Overall, users appreciate the features and functionality that Rider offers for their development tasks.
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September 29, 2022
It has a lot more value than you may think
We used it instead of Visual Studio and it’s just perfect. You will never regret paying for the service. It makes your life super easy, from suggestions to database connection to all the plugins it provides. It made everyone on the team work complete tasks faster and with better quality of code
- It’s very fast and the UI/UX part makes it very comfortable to use
- It’s cross platform so you can find on Linux and macOS also
- It analyses your code exceptionally well and provides very useful feedback
- Debugging is just another level compared to Visual Studio, it’s just incredible
- I think there could be more .net related plugins
- More theme options like on vscode would be welcome
- Would be great if you could write C++ for Unreal Engine
- It’s cheap for what it provides. Their year on year contract renewal discounts are much appreciated.
- It makes developers code and debug faster so there is less time waiting, and more action
- They implement new features fast so with each new .NET release you do not have to wait a long time, which helped us with .NET 6 LTS
- For web application it has everything you may ever need from typescript to SQL, even Razor related stuff. Works great with Blazor too
- Developers are happier, a lot less stress.
- Development process went much faster than before.
- Ability to code .NET on Linux without fear of blue screen
It’s a great free tool but not as enhanced as IntelliJ platform that JetBrains Rider has. Debugging and access to database is not as comfortable to use. Sure, you can save money on IDE, but may need to spend it on sleeping and stress relief pills.
May 29, 2022
Improve of speed on game development.
We use Rider for game development in Unreal. There are other development platforms for Unreal but Rider with the new support for Unreal really helped make the development more agile and proved to be the most reliable one. The two main features that other platforms lack are IntelliSense considering Unreal Macros and quick searches, but all the other tools within the platform are great.
- IntelliSense
- Quick Search.
- Debugging
- Code versioning Integrations.
- Extendable plugins.
- Forum for issues with answer from the developers.
- Startup time. It takes a while to index big projects.
- Rarely it loses the intellisense and the only way to get it back is by restarting.
- Unreal IntelliSense.
- Quick indexing.
- Perforce integration.
- Improve agility of development.
It helps you develop and not have to think too much about some things because of the IntelliSense support for Unreal (that others don't have) and it has a quick search with multiple types as well. Visual code has an ok search, but no IntelliSense, Visual Studio has a slow search and no IntelliSense.
September 07, 2020
Rider and Unity: A Great Combination
JetBrains Rider is used as the primary IDE by a number of Unity developers. It is a replacement for Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and Visual Studio Mac. JetBrains Rider is used for both development and debugging C# code in Unity.
- Useful C# refactoring suggestions with indications of which options are available for different versions of the C# language
- Deep understanding of the Unity game engine, which means that Rider can flag potential problems such as being careful with the use of the null coalescing and null propagation/conditional operators on types that derive from UnityEngine.Object.
- Good searching and navigation facilities make it easier to understand unfamiliar code.
- Rider is slower to start up than, for example, Visual Studio Code so I do find myself using Code for quick edits to files.
- Rider does appear to be more resource-intensive than Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio.
- Writing clearer C# code based on refactoring suggestions
- Avoiding some obscure bugs that Rider has flagged in the IDE that would have taken a lot of time and effort to find and fix through testing
- Cost of licenses, though the benefits outweigh the costs
JetBrains Rider provides better refactoring suggestions and support than Visual Studio, and uniquely, it provides specific recommendations for the Unity engine.
All five of our engineers have adopted Rider as our primary IDE for .NET development, which is our main project. We develop an online, web-based service with components in .NET Framework, .NET Core, and Xamarin. Rider has been a successful alternative to Visual Studio to improve developer experience and productivity.
- Provides a smooth, efficient IDE for developing .NET applications. Performance has been much better than Visual Studio in my experience.
- Integrated refactoring tools are really comprehensive and useful.
- Integrates with other JetBrains products such as TeamCity, Upsource, dotTrace, etc.
- The debugger tools are still lacking compared to Visual Studio, especially when you consider plugins such as OzCode.
- I still keep Visual Studio installed. Sometimes the project won't build correctly, or exhibit strange behaviour. Usually clean, restart, and rebuild addresses actual issues, but I always double check with Visual Studio in such cases.
- Versioning can be a bit of a nightmare. There is an official updater, but they tend to leave old versions hanging around and I have found myself accidentally using a previously installed version without intending to.
- Development experience led to faster development times due to better performance, well worth the licence cost.
Rider (and the entire IntelliJ suite) has been my preferred IDE for years. Visual Studio is wonderful as well, but Rider just keeps ahead in the important features. More importantly, both IDEs provide healthy competition and I only see this getting better.
Compared to other popular IDEs that aren't .NET specific (such as Eclipse), I don't see any reason to use them unless you need specific features or plugins that the JetBrains family doesn't support.
5
All of our developers use Rider for .NET development. We have developers working on both Windows and Mac systems, working on ASP.Net Core projects, IIS ASP.NET MVC projects, console applications, Xamarin projects, etc.
We don't have anyone that owns supporting Rider, nor do I think that is necessary.
- Develop .NET applications and systems
- Track code reviews using Upsource Integration