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Mert Özen's blog posts on software development, backend, frontend, and DevOps.
Visual Studio 2026, Rider and VS Code: Which IDE Should a .NET + Angular Developer Choose
Platform and licensing decide it: Visual Studio 2026 runs only on Windows 11, Rider and VS Code are cross-platform; Visual Studio Community and C# Dev Kit reach their free limit at 5 people in a commercial team, and Rider is free only for non-commercial work. Current versions and update cadences, a decision table by scenario, and .editorconfig, dotnet format and global.json as common ground across IDEs, with real output.
Being Fast in the IDE: Navigation and Shortcuts Compared Across VS 2026, Rider and VS Code
The answer to "who uses this" is Find All References, not Find in Files: in the Bookstore sample grep found eight lines while Roslyn's SymbolFinder API returned only four real references. The queries behind Go to Definition, Implementation, References and Call Hierarchy, a Windows and macOS shortcut table for Visual Studio 2026, Rider and VS Code, multi-caret, column selection, bookmarks and switching keymaps.
.NET Development with JetBrains Rider: Inspections, Decompiler, Database Tools and Angular
Rider combines the ReSharper engine, DataGrip's database tools and WebStorm's Angular support in one IDE; but the tool isn't magic: the SQL EF Core generated for SQLite didn't run in the database console because of the ef_compare function. Settings layers and .editorconfig precedence, the decompiler and Source Link, Explain Plan, the Endpoints window, dotUltimate, what Rider 2026.2 added and .NET 10 file-based apps, with real output.
AI Assistants in the IDE: Copilot Agent Mode, Rider AI and Safe Use
The compiler catches an invented API, but only a test that knows the business rule catches wrong behavior that compiles: MidpointRounding.HalfUp in an agent-written test gave CS0117, and an xUnit test with the boundary value 1.025 found banker's rounding in the implementation. Completion, NES, chat and agent; the AI features of Visual Studio 2026 18.x, VS Code 1.145 and Rider 2026.2; copilot-instructions.md, MCP trust and safe-use rules.
What Changed in IDEs: From Visual Studio 2022 to 2026, and Rider and VS Code in 2025–2026
Keep a global.json in the repo so an IDE update can't silently move your build to a new SDK; in a real run latestPatch picked 10.0.402, and an uninstalled 11.0.100 stopped with exit code 155. Visual Studio 2026 GA and monthly updates from 18.0 to 18.11, Rider from 2025.3 to the 2026.3 EAP, VS Code's move to weekly releases and agent windows, IDE support status with .NET 11 RC3, and a migration checklist.