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Engineers in various industries have adopted JetBrains Rider as their primary IDE for .NET development, citing improved experience and …
Starting at $14.90 per month per user
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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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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 |
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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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March 06, 2019
A do it all IDE for .Net!
I personally use Rider daily instead of Visual Studio Enterprise when I am working on our back end web API that is written in ASP.Net Core. I've also started using Rider instead of Visual Studio for our deployment and upgrade applications, and all the utilities that we write to deploy our applications into Azure and AWS. Since I prefer to use Linux as my desktop, instead of Windows, it was an easy choice to start using Rider. However, after using it, I am now hooked on it and also use it on my Windows desktop when I need to work with Windows applications.
If you've ever used Resharper in Visual Studio, you will find that the refactorings and code suggestions that it gives you are very well thought out, make your code cleaner and easier to read, and help you write better code. The only problem with this is that it can sometimes negatively affect the performance of Visual Studio, sometimes so much that you have to turn it off if it's a very large project. Rider gives you back those nice refactorings without the performance hit.
It's smooth, works well, is highly stable, and gets out of my way.
- Helps you refactor your code into more readable and more efficient code.
- Highly customizable UI, including color themes, shortcut key remappings, and the ability to put any Window, Toolbar, or Docked tab anywhere you want, even on second screens. Additionally, this functionality can be customized per project, not just globally for the whole machine.
- More control over Git. Visual Studio just has the basics, but mostly all that is needed is for git repositories. It gets the job done., but Rider takes it one step further and gives you most of what you can do on the command line's simple, easy to access menu options.
- If you use TeamCity, then you have complete and full integration into your TeamCity build server!
- You can double tap your control key and get a quick pop up to instantly run any command. Double tap shift and you can search your entire project, filenames, AND text and filter that search!
- If you are on Linux, it still uses Mono for a few things, such as the interactive C# window. This can be a slight issue if you are in Dotnet Core. While you can get the Dotnet script to work, there is a bug currently in the Dotnet script that doesn't allow the interactive window to work. However, you can run the Dotnet script in a terminal and get the same functionality, just not as easily.
- Their built-in performance tools do not work on Linux.
- Saved me a ton of time refactoring code, especially when editing web files in our project. The lack of full SAAS and JavaScript support in Visual Studio is a drain on time. Rider makes it super quick to get all the work done.
- Their performance profilers that are built into Rider saved us hours upon hours of manpower tracking down memory and speed issues with our code. Highly recommended!
Rider is hands down smoother and way less glitchy than Visual Studio Enterprise. There are way more refactoring capabilities and spell check so that your code is readable, maintainable, and easy to follow. Since Rider is cross-platform, our developers are no longer constrained to only using Windows. We can now get a familiar development environment across Mac, Windows, or Linux!