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Been thinking about switching to Rider (already had the personal license for Jetbrains from wanting CLion for Rust) and figured .NET 6 would be a good time to t

Been thinking about switching to Rider (already had the personal license for Jetbrains from wanting CLion for Rust) and figured .NET 6 would be a good time to try making the switch. With how blah VS has been for a while hopefully I'll like the Rider experience better (for both c# and f#) Edit: Though I saw something this morning when I tried to load an f# project I made in VS refused to load even though the new ones generated with Rider are fine...

vyrotek 5y ago
I'd love to give Rider a try but I need SQL Projects. VSCode and DataStudio both have support for it now so I'm hoping they figure out how to bring it into Rider as well.
kiklion 5y ago
Compare the generated project file between the two. I noticed for a time that some projects created in rider had a different project type than those created in VS which caused some issues at my company. Was a simple change to the proj file though.
wsc981 5y ago
I've been using Rider for a couple of months now for Xamarin projects, as Visual Studio was for unknown reasons unbearable slow on my iMac - it totally destroyed my workflow and productivity. Rider is not perfect, but in many ways miles above Visual Studio. As Rider doesn't have any Forms editor build-in (AFAIK), I am slowly switching most of my views to fully code, so I don't need to rely on Visual Studio's visual layout editors anymore.
- marcocampos 5y ago
  It does but only on Windows and for C# projects: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/rider/Working_with_Windows_Forms.html#editing-windows-forms https://www.jetbrains.com/help/rider/Working_with_Windows_Fo...
GordonS 5y ago
I switched from VS to Rider a few years back - it's great, and I'm so glad I made the move! Rider feels so much faster than VS, and is rock solid - these were my 2 main reasons for switching from VS.
solarkraft 5y ago
+1 for Rider. It’s one of the 2 .NET IDEs I know that don’t suck terribly (the other being the proprietary version of VSCode).
- jcmontx 5y ago
  > proprietary version of VSCode Do you mean Visual Studio? They don't share anything AFAIK
  - vopi 5y ago
    The binary VScode you install is different than an open source build. Microsoft doesn't want OS builds using the same package registery and I assume various tooling iirc
    - jcmontx 5y ago
      Very interesting. I wasn't aware of that.
simooooo 5y ago
Rider likes not to stop execution for exceptions like visual studio does, but otherwise it’s great
keithnz 5y ago
I switched to Rider a few years ago. I really like it and I find its Vim emulation a lot lot better than what you can get for Visual Studio. Its F# support is ok, but I'd say VSCode+Ionide is better. But Rider isn't bad for F# still, and it has other tools it brings.

vyrotek 5y ago

I'd love to give Rider a try but I need SQL Projects. VSCode and DataStudio both have support for it now so I'm hoping they figure out how to bring it into Rider as well.

kiklion 5y ago

Compare the generated project file between the two. I noticed for a time that some projects created in rider had a different project type than those created in VS which caused some issues at my company. Was a simple change to the proj file though.

wsc981 5y ago

I've been using Rider for a couple of months now for Xamarin projects, as Visual Studio was for unknown reasons unbearable slow on my iMac - it totally destroyed my workflow and productivity. Rider is not perfect, but in many ways miles above Visual Studio. As Rider doesn't have any Forms editor build-in (AFAIK), I am slowly switching most of my views to fully code, so I don't need to rely on Visual Studio's visual layout editors anymore.

marcocampos 5y ago
It does but only on Windows and for C# projects: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/rider/Working_with_Windows_Forms.html#editing-windows-forms https://www.jetbrains.com/help/rider/Working_with_Windows_Fo...

GordonS 5y ago

I switched from VS to Rider a few years back - it's great, and I'm so glad I made the move! Rider feels so much faster than VS, and is rock solid - these were my 2 main reasons for switching from VS.

solarkraft 5y ago

+1 for Rider. It’s one of the 2 .NET IDEs I know that don’t suck terribly (the other being the proprietary version of VSCode).

jcmontx 5y ago
> proprietary version of VSCode Do you mean Visual Studio? They don't share anything AFAIK
- vopi 5y ago
  The binary VScode you install is different than an open source build. Microsoft doesn't want OS builds using the same package registery and I assume various tooling iirc
  - jcmontx 5y ago
    Very interesting. I wasn't aware of that.

simooooo 5y ago

Rider likes not to stop execution for exceptions like visual studio does, but otherwise it’s great

keithnz 5y ago

I switched to Rider a few years ago. I really like it and I find its Vim emulation a lot lot better than what you can get for Visual Studio. Its F# support is ok, but I'd say VSCode+Ionide is better. But Rider isn't bad for F# still, and it has other tools it brings.