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What is Rider?

Rider helps you develop .NET, .NET Core,.NET Framework, ASP.NET, Xamarin, or Unity applications on Windows, Mac, and Linux. It provides outstanding editing support and code insight for languages used in .NET development including C#, F#, Razor/Blazor syntax, JavaScript, TypeScript, XAML, HTML, CSS, and SQL. Rider includes 2500+ live code inspections, hundreds of context actions and refactorings provided by ReSharper, all combined with IntelliJ Platform’s robust IDE feature set. Although it is heavily loaded with features, Rider is fast and responsive.

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Rider is a full-fledged, cross-platform .NET IDE. Rider can open, manage, build and debug a wide variety of .NET Framework, Mono and .NET Core based solutions, and provides editing support for most languages used in .NET development: C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET syntax, XAML, XML, JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, HTML, CSS, and SQL.


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JetBrains builds productivity software for developers who want to focus more on what they want to accomplish, and less on mundane, repetitive tasks.


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Recent Rider Reviews

Arkadiusz B.
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Arkadiusz B.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Tool which makes my work easier"
Debugging with rider is extremely easy. I use it every day and love amount integration with different tools. I dont think I can get back to using v...
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5.0 out of 5
"The absolute best C# IDE hands-down"
Tons of refactorings, lots of hints, builtin memory and CPU profiling, decompiling and allocation tracking
Krismar A.
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Krismar A.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"Using this a lot in dotnet environment"
One of the thing that I love on this is auto complition, suggestion and auto import of classess. I become more effecient this compare to visual st...
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Rider Demo - Code Completion
IDE Rider helps you develop .NET, ASP.NET, .NET Core, Xamarin or Unity applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux. It provides rich editing support and code insight for languages used in .NET development, from C#, VB.NET and F# to ASP.NET Razor syntax, JavaScript, TypeScript, XAML, XML, HTML, CSS, S...
Rider Demo - Killer code analysis
Rider boasts 2500+ live code inspections to help you detect errors and code smells. Over 1000 quick-fixes are available to resolve detected issues individually or in bulk: just hit Alt+Enter to pick one. For a bird's-eye view of errors in your projects, use solution-wide error analysis (SWEA): it...
Rider Demo - Refactoring
Most of ReSharper's 50+ refactorings are already available in Rider, and its 450+ context actions are all there. You can rename, extract methods, interfaces and classes, move and copy types, use alternative syntax, and a lot more! Look for available refactorings in the Refactor This pop-up, or us...
Rider Demo - Intelligent code editor
Rider provides tons of smart code editing features, such as different kinds of code completion, auto-importing namespaces, auto-inserting braces and highlighting matching delimiters, rearranging code, live and postfix templates, controller and action hyperlinks in ASP.NET MVC, a multi-selection m...
Rider Demo - Works on Windows, Mac and Linux
Rider can run on multiple platforms: Windows, macOS and different breeds of Linux. If you want to edit, build, run or debug Unity or .NET Core applications on a Mac, here's your full-blown IDE.
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What do you like best about Rider?

Rider allows the user to preserve keyboard scheme from Resharper or Visual Basic - which is very convenient for switchers. It also allows full customization of keyboard shortcuts according to the user's preferences. Navigating across files and searching for features is very easy - thanks to its combined file and action search. Code Cleanup is very helpful for independent developers like me because it simplifies my code to a great extent. Find and Replace feature can even work across files to omit duplicate instances. The Debugger is even capable of decompiling the source code to locate faulty functions. Rider is efficiently capable of maintaining multiple projects in a centralized manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rider?

I had to make my own template as default templates were not exactly suitable. Setting up the debugger with environment variables seemed a bit counterintuitive. After debugging codes, changes will not be visible until a run is stopped and the solution is rerun - which was quite confusing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?

As a web developer, I am using Rider to build web applications in C#. Alternative IDEs that I considered were either resource-hungry or inadequate to fulfill the requirements for my projects. With Rider, I have been able to utilize the features of other IDEs in an optimized manner. Rider has been a fully-fledged solution for me to work on both ends of my projects (front-end and back-end) simultaneously. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Rider?

I really love all of the Jetbrains suite of IDEs. They are easy to use, and the ability to synchronize settings across IDEs is very helpful! It was very easy for our team to switch from Visual Studio to Rider. The many plugins and simple UI are really nice. I feel that the out-of-the-box features are also a bit more advanced than Visual Studio. Pricing is also very competitive! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rider?

One of their biggeset downsides is the lack of integration with legacy systems for developing .net software for Windows. The language support for VB.net leaves some to be desired, and the lack fo a drag-and-drop editor for WinForms makes Visual Studio much more appealing.

It is also harder to find good project templates for Rider, as it is not as commonly used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using Rider for developing desktop applications, lambda fucntions for AWS, and software plugins. Rider's many plugins and easy configuration makes it a breeze. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Krismar A.
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What do you like best about Rider?

One of the thing that I love on this is auto complition, suggestion and auto import of classess.

I become more effecient this compare to visual studio code and visual studio. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rider?

Its hard to migrate my working environment

The default config the size of text is too large, the spacing is too wide.

Setting sass compiler quite challenging incounter some issue.

This the issue is after setting up the sass compiler at first saving its compiles but after making changes on scss file it not compite automatically I need to delete the compiled file in order to apply my changes. after lot of searching there is a trick need to delete line of text in config after that hard time. This application works fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?

the eliminate of manual typing of import class, the auto correction work well and the error message is correct compare to what i have in visual studio code if i type one incorrect word the whole code becomes red. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Paco V.
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What do you like best about Rider?

The ability to run on Windows and Linux much better than other IDEs. Availability of many tools and plugins such as Copilot, Amazon Q, GitLen and others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rider?

The only thing I dislike is that the annual license fee is a bit high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can develop solutions in .NET C# on linux without the need to have a Microsoft Windows environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Rider?

Rider is best IDE for .net development.

The features i likes are

1. lightweight

2.Text highlighting

3. collaboration

4. Code folding

5. Auto completion

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What do you dislike about Rider?

I never faced any problem while using rider. But sometimes package installation and debugging run slower than usual. It's not a big problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?

In my company, i am doing a project in asp.net. previously i use visual studio for this project. My laptop spec. is intel i5 6th gen, 8gb ram, 500gb ssd. While debugging my project, my laptop get stuck and visual studio says all threads are busy. And sometimes visual studio says not responding. So I switched to rider. Now there are no problem in debugging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Marco Adrian B.
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What do you like best about Rider?

IT reallly resembles visual studio skills and tools.

Really user Friendly UI.

It's really easy to develop for .net using Rider.

Has hot reload and really good integrations with cloud and GIT. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rider?

Not free.

I think it consumes more resources than VS and far more than VSCode.

It would be better to be a lot more extensible like VSCode.

Only for .NET.

Not so much extensions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?

the lack of a good alternative to a dedicated .NET IDE like Visual Studio but for Mac (not counting VSCode). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Rider?

Rider is the exact some as every other Jetbrains IDE, so once you learn one of them you know all of them so to speak. No suprises. The documentation compared to other IDEs is also superior in my experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rider?

It is much harder to assign custom keybinds in my opinion, such as creating one to open the last viewed tab. I also do not like its file search feature as it wont auto clear things that were in it before hand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?

Its is an IDE, it solves the all in one issue so you have an easier set up of an enviroment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Arkadiusz B.
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What do you like best about Rider?

Debugging with rider is extremely easy. I use it every day and love amount integration with different tools. I dont think I can get back to using visual studio Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rider?

Some of features in comparison to Visual studio are not available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?

Developing software for clients Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Patrick S.
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What do you like best about Rider?

What I like the most it is Unity integration, while working with Unity it's above other solutions. Code completion, theming, debugging are all great find cause usage even within Unity scene is also doable which a really a plus Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rider?

laRider uses alot resources by default even in smaller project but it even more disturbing in bigger project CPU and RAM usage are really high, for CPU not too much but RAM usage high 8Gb of RAM can be gone just by opening a project Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?

Rider solve code writing and debugging using Unity, int integrated terminal and got functionality make it easy to push, pull or do any other got related action. It find features make it easy to find keyword usage and the list goes on Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ilya R.
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What do you like best about Rider?

Started using the rider four years ago. Before that, I used another popular IDE for Net, and often disowned Rider. However, I was introduced to this system by a friend of mine, and I was absolutely delighted. It works very fast, smart tips for writing code, creating your own templates, smart and fast refactoring, keeping to codestyle. Got my whole team hooked on rider, and I recommend it to everyone, especially novice developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rider?

The disadvantage is that the IDEs are not very flexible. Sometimes you have to write sub-modules in another programming language and have to use another similar IDE from the same company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helps me and my team write clean code, automate unnecessary actions, and maintain codestyle. Works great in conjunction with git. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.