Alexey Khludov

Situation JetBrains Rider has two types of settings: IntelliJ related, which are out of the scope of this article, and ReSharper related, which are stored in three default settings layers: personal...

Question What is the .idea folder and what is it used for? Answer The .idea folder (hidden on OS X) in the solution root contains IntelliJ’s project-specific settings files. These include per-proje...

Question Are there any prerequisites to use Rider on Windows? Is it necessary to have Visual Studio installed? Answer On a Windows machine Rider should work if either .NET SDK or Visual Studio* is ...

Question Are there any prerequisites to use Rider on Linux? Answer Development in JetBrains Rider under Linux requires at least one of the following additional frameworks. The required framework de...

Question Are there any prerequisites to use Rider on Mac ? Answer Development in JetBrains Rider under Mac OS X will require at least one of the following additional frameworks. The required framew...

Question Where are the Rider files located? Answer To open the installation folder via Rider: go to the menu Help | Diagnostic Tools | Special Files and Folders  double-click on Installation home ...

Rider is able to import TFS workspaces created by Visual Studio. Particular actions required to import a workspace depend on the Azure DevOps plugin installed. As a prerequisite, you’ll be required...

Common cases when you may need to change the default locations of the IDE files: user profile drive runs out of space the disk is slow and you want to use faster HDD or SSD for caches default user...

Question Rider takes too much disk space. How to use only the required minimum? Answer The minimum required disk space for Rider is 2,5 GB. There are some special folders which Rider uses to store ...

Problem description Some antivirus software can interfere with the development cycle pipeline. When you start programs or build your project in Rider or via the command-line tool, many files are cr...