Hello from JetBrains!

We are excited to introduce to you the new Rider 2018.2 release which comes with a load of new features, improvements, and a solid set of bug-fixes. The most important highlights are below:

• Debugger: more understandable call stacks, thread-specific breakpoints, inspecting and expanding unsafe pointers.
• Docker support has reached the debugger.
• Publish support for ASP.NET Core Web projects.
• Integrated spell checker scans for spelling mistakes and typos in identifiers, comments, string literals, and more, and provides quick-fixes to resolve each detected problem.
• Rider finally supports all the features from the latest C# 7.3.
• MacBook Touch Bar support for the IDE.
• dotCover support on Windows: Unit test coverage and continuous testing.
• Code completion uses ReSharper’s statistics-based scoring algorithm and works in scratch files, debugger watches, and C# Interactive.
• Solution Explorer redesign: new toolbar, Scratches and File System views, and a Folders always on top mode.
• Template editor right in the Rider settings.
• A couple of handy features added to the C# Interactive tool window.
• More advanced Unity support: support for .asmdef and csc.rsp files, Unity players in the Attach to Unity Process list, Packages and Scratches nodes in Unity Explorer, and many more exciting additions!
• Frontend development features: TypeScript 2.9/3.0 support, improved support for React/Angular/Vue.js.
• VCS update: easier resolve of merge conflicts, enhancements in VCS Log tab, favorite branches in Branch filter, and a Browse repository at revision action
• F# support: File Templates and F# 4.5 features support.

For the full list of all the features and improvements in our Rider 2018.2 release, please refer to Rider’s What’s New page.

JetBrains Rider Team

The Drive to Develop