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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.
A Tour of Visual Studio 2026: Workloads, .slnx, Solution Explorer and Code Search
In .NET 10, dotnet new sln produces .slnx by default; dotnet sln migrate turns a 71-line .sln into 14 lines, but the .NET 8 SDK can't read .slnx and a leftover .sln stops the build with MSB1011. Visual Studio 2026 workloads and .vsconfig, side-by-side installs and the monthly update model, solution filters (.slnf), Code Search prefixes and what 18.11 added, with real CLI 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.
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.