Yes, if you are developing .NET professionally there is no way around Visual Studio (Windows) or Rider. Visual Studio is free for personal use and smaller comp

Yes, if you are developing .NET professionally there is no way around Visual Studio (Windows) or Rider. Visual Studio is free for personal use and smaller companies (community edition), and Rider is not very expensive. I actually think every developer should have a JetBrains all products license in their toolbox, their IDEs are very useful, support most programming languages and have one of the best SQL IDEs included. Also they are all quite similar, so you can switch to a new programming language without getting used to a new IDE.