More project templates can be added online (see repository here) or through downloadable templates. NET Core, Unity and Xamarin projects, which are roughly identical to what you get with Visual Studio: Out of the box, Rider offers several project templates for. You can have multiple windows showing the way you want them, even collapsed, and then save the settings. Rider is responsive and customizable, you can pick your color scheme, keyboard bindings and what not. This is a big advantage for Rider: it just looks and behaves the same everywhere. Visual Studio also supports Mac and Linux, but not all of these platforms have the same feature set. It is cross-platform, meaning, it can run on both Windows, Mac and several flavors of Linux, offering the same set of functionality and identical behavior on all of them.

Rider originates from other JetBrains such as ReSharper and WebStorm but now turned into an IDE. It’s features are listed on JetBrains site here. This differs from Visual Studio, which also offers a community edition, of course, lacking several features of its enterprise counterpart. Rider from JetBrains only has a paid version, not a free one. You may remember Visual Studio was already covered in another Stackify post. In this post, I am going to talk about Rider and how it compares to Visual Studio. This is not to say that open source does not offer high quality stuff – I have been an advocate of NHibernate for years – but only that companies that can spend money in having full time developers working on something usually benefit from that. Not all of these are free or open source, and, in general, this shows up in the quality of the tool or the features it offers.

In recent years, this landscape has somewhat changed: we now have Visual Studio Code, MonoDevelop, SharpDevelop and, more recently, JetBrains Rider. Other tools existed, of course, but they were generally no match for Visual Studio. For many years, it was essentially the only tool that offered a comprehensive IDE with useful functionality that could be used for enterprise-level. In the beginning there was Visual Studio.

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