Rider Early Access Program

• .NET Core debugger on Mac and Linux is back!
• More debugger improvements: Console view is working again, Results view for enumerables, no more duplicating backing fields, etc.
• Code Cleanup arrives in Rider.
• F# unit testing and more F# support improvements.
• Target frameworks can be shown in the Errors in Solution view when Solution-Wide Analysis is on.
• Reworked Project Properties dialog and a new Solution Properties dialog.
• VB.NET project templates.
• Project load error notifications.
• Improved support for web.config and MSBuild files.
• Reworked console.

See also: more fixes in this build

• Support for Xamarin Mac and iOS applications.
• Undo and redo are available for large-scale refactorings such as moving a class to a different project.
• Unit testing improvements with new toolbars, context actions to manage test sessions from the editor, and more.
• NuGet client receives UI to manage NuGet package sources.
• Debugging two or more projects simultaneously via attaching to compound run configurations.
• Build behavior and UI fixes.
• Favorites tool window showing favorites, bookmarks and breakpoints.
• More work on code inspection settings.

See also: more fixes in this build

• Introducing F# support with a bundled plugin.
• Microsoft's TFS plugin is back in Rider and is now bundled.
• Syntax highlighting and navigation in XML documentation comments.
• Rider's Settings dialog improved with NuGet options, ReSharper-based typing assistance options, etc.
• An option to show members from related files in Go to File Member.
• Detection of existing file indents in .NET languages.

See also: more fixes in this build

• Initial support for Xamarin Android applications.
• Improved support for .csproj-based .NET Core projects.
• Alt+Enter pop-up reworked: it allows searching for actions and settings (similar to ReSharper), and contains items provided by Rider's backend (ReSharper) and front-end (IntelliJ platform).
• Custom tools to generate .Resx files, execute T4 templates (the latter is available on Windows only, requires Visual Studio SDK).
• Node.js support based on WebStorm.
• Stop All action is available in compound run configurations.
• Code folding settings (imports are collapsed by default).
• Word search in Rider's Options dialog and Search Everywhere pop-up.
• NuGet improvements: performance tuning, advanced support for UWP projects and versions with asterisks (i.e. 1.0.0-*), an option to disable restore via NuGet.config.
• More plugins are available for installation.

See also: more fixes in this build

• Initial support for .csproj-based .NET Core projects.
• Additional tooling for front-end web development (courtesy of WebStorm), including support for:
  • LESS and Sass,
  • Bower,
  • npm, Gulp and Grunt runners,
  • JavaScript quality tools: JSLint, JSHint, Closure Linter, JSCS, ESLint.
• Code inspection settings.
• Find similar issues in file, project, solution or a custom scope.
• Run inspection by name.
• .NET-specific scopes in Find in Path.
• Color picker window for C#, XAML and CSS.
• Soft wraps are now working: you can turn them on/off for all files, or just for the active editor.
• Bug fixes and more contrasting colors in To-do Explorer.
• No more high CPU usage caused by mono-sgen processes on macOS.

See also: more fixes in this build

• CoreCLR debugging on Windows is back (Linux, macOS to come later).
• Debugger can attach to .NET Core processes on Windows.
• Fixed solution load errors with Invalid volume separator char exception.
• Support for COM references: UI for adding them, and properly displaying them in the Solution Explorer.
• Fixed invalid dangling foldings in editors that haven't been opened for a long time.

• Debugging .NET Core applications that target CoreCLR is temporarily disabled due to licensing issues. To learn more, see this blog post.
• Debugger adds hit count filters for line breakpoints.
• Support for shared projects.
• NuGet: new NuGet Manager UI, improved support for project.json and Universal Windows Platform applications.
• Fixes that address crashes, exceptions and slowdowns on solution load on macOS and Linux.
• Code completion for colors in C#, XAML and CSS.
• Summary info popup in code completion.
• Unit testing: new settings page and a fixes related to unit test session management.
• Low latency typing (most noticeable on Linux).
• Improved code completion performance.
• Build: improved navigation from build results, additional diagnostic actions.
• Inspection severity configuration from the Alt+Enter menu.

• You can now open multiple solutions at once.
• The NuGet tool window gets a new UI.
• EditorConfig is supported with a bundled plugin.
• File Watchers plugin is now available in Rider: it monitors changes to specified files and executes associated tasks. This helps automate transpiling when you work with TypeScript, Sass and similar languages.
• Debugger displays values of variables next to code, and allows navigating to code from the Variables tab.
• Code style settings can now be saved to a specific layer, similar to how it's implemented in ReSharper.
• New Properties dialogs for files, folders and references.
• UI for the Encapsulate Field refactoring and the Fix naming in scope quick-fix.
• Include in index and Exclude from index context menu commands in Solution Explorer that help manually control which non-project folders Rider should process for the purposes of its code analysis and which it should ignore.
• In build configuration settings, you can choose to build a specific project instead of the entire solution.
• You can now delete characters from the diff view when you're reviewing your changes.
• Auto-formatting of pasted text can now be undone.

• Code style settings for C#, VB.NET, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS have been ported from ReSharper.
• Output tool window for incremental build.
• Improved automatic highlighting for usages of symbol under caret: no more blinking on moving the caret, and the error stripe starts to indicate highlighted usages.
• Better syntax highlighting for ASPX markup.
• More file templates: directories, generic files, HTML files, data sources.
• C# code folding improved: more foldings for different language structures and blocks, including for, foreach, switch, using, if/else, try/catch/finally, lambda expressions, properties, and initializers).
• Initial support for code folding in XAML, including folding for comments and tags.
• Default project directory is now set correctly instead of pointing to the root directory.
• Unity debugger learns to insert breakpoints in Unity 5.5.
• Performance improvements and fixes in .NET Framework debugger (evaluating nullable properties, calling methods of generic classes etc.).
• Version control improvements: better presentation of commit details, messages and labels in Git and Mercurial commit logs; new actions to undo the last commit and sign-off a commit.
• Improvements in database editor, such as better usage search and editing multiple similar cells.

• Initial support for new .csproj files introduced by Visual Studio 2017 RC.
• Usages of symbol under caret are now automatically highlighted.
• New unit testing actions, including Repeat previous run and Append tests to session.
• A shortcut for Save document is introduced.
• Multiple debugger and unit test runner fixes.
• Python plugin is now available.