How can I configure Rhino8 with Rider?

Question

The official tutorial provides instructions for VS Code, but not for Rider. How to make it work in Rider? How to launch Rhinoceros from Rider together with a plugin developed. + Debug

Answer

First, due to a lack of a dedicated plugin for Rider, simulating plugin installation to Rhino requires extra steps.

There are the steps one needs to perform:

• After creating a template project via dotnet new rhino --version 8 -sample, go to <Project>/Properties/launchSettings.json and remove the comma “,” at line 18;
• Adjust the existing "Rhino 8 - netcore" profile or make a new one:
• Go to Run | Edit Configurations and make a “Publish To Folder” run configuration:
• Find the .NET Launch Settings Profile run configuration you are going to run from Rider in the list and set Runtime to .NET / .NET Core.
• Save changes. Now you can run the publish configuration to “install the plugin to Rhino”, then launch it from Rider via Run/Debug using the corresponding launch settings profile.

To make it work in one click, you can create a Multi-Launch run configuration that “installs” the newly built plugin (publishes, replacing the previously published binaries) and then launches the Rhino application: