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In the case of Git the one I use the most it offers many features not available from inside Visual Studio, like stashes and patches.

Watch Video Resources Blog Case Studies Free Webinars Documentation ROI Calculator Support Security Information GDPR Blog Login Start Free Trial Visual Studio versus Rider Ricardo Peres March 12, 2018 Developer Tips, Tricks Resources In the beginning there was Visual Studio.

For many years, it was essentially the only tool that offered a comprehensive IDE with useful functionality that could be used for enterprise-level.NET development.

Other tools existed, of course, but they were generally no match for Visual Studio.

In recent years, this landscape has somewhat changed: we now have Visual Studio Code, MonoDevelop, SharpDevelop and, more recently, JetBrains Rider.

Not all of these are free or open source, and, in general, this shows up in the quality of the tool or the features it offers.

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This is not to say that open source does not offer high quality stuff I have been an advocate of NHibernate for years but only that companies that can spend money in having full time developers working on something usually benefit from that.

In this post, I am going to talk about Rider and how it compares to Visual Studio.

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How Rider Compares to Visual Studio Rider from JetBrains only has a paid version, not a free one.

This differs from Visual Studio, which also offers a community edition, of course, lacking several features of its enterprise counterpart.

Rider originates from other JetBrains such as ReSharper and WebStorm but now turned into an IDE.

It is cross-platform, meaning, it can run on both Windows, Mac and several flavors of Linux, offering the same set of functionality and identical behavior on all of them.

Visual Studio also supports Mac and Linux, but not all of these platforms have the same feature set.

This is a big advantage for Rider: it just looks and behaves the same everywhere.

Riders Look and Feel Rider is responsive and customizable, you can pick your color scheme, keyboard bindings and what not.

You can have multiple windows showing the way you want them, even collapsed, and then save the settings.

Riders Projects Out of the box, Rider offers several project templates for.NET,.NET Core, Unity and Xamarin projects, which are roughly identical to what you get with Visual Studio: More project templates can be added online (see repository here ) or through downloadable templates.

The solutions and projects that Rider works with are fully compatible with Visual Studios, that is, it doesnt use any proprietary format.

You can create projects using the C, F or VB languages, but not all of these languages are not available for all project types.

You can target any of the installed.NET Framework versions, but only the latest.NET Core or.NET Standards.

For ASP.NET Core projects, you can pick a.NET template that uses Angular, React or React and Redux: When in a project, you have the solution and the structure view, where you can see a structures internals.

Visual Studio shows the types inside of each file, this is missing from Rider.

Rider does offer a structure view, Ill talk about it in a moment.

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