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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.
Debug Configurations in the IDE: launchSettings.json, launch.json and Debugging a .NET API and Angular Together
To debug the API and Angular from one F5 you use launch.json compounds in VS Code, a compound run configuration in Rider and a multi-project launch profile in Visual Studio; in a real run, dotnet run without a profile started the app on port 5000 in Production. launchSettings.json profiles, a background task that waits for ng serve, proxy.conf.json, source maps, HMR, attaching to processes and debugging tests.
Full-Stack .NET and Angular in VS Code: C# Dev Kit, Angular Language Service, Profiles and Dev Containers
For .NET and Angular in VS Code, C# Dev Kit on top of the C# extension, the Angular Language Service and .vscode settings in the repo are enough; put the environment in a Dev Container and a new developer only needs Docker and VS Code. In a real run the container brought .NET SDK 10.0.403 and Node 26.13.0, but since forwardPorts is VS Code's job, the API in a CLI-started container wasn't reachable from the host. Settings layers, profiles, Remote SSH, WSL and agent windows.
IDE Extensions: The Ones That Actually Help, Settings Sync and Extension Security
An extension runs with your permissions and Workspace Trust can't stop it; Restricted Mode only stops a repo you don't trust from running code on its own. We read VS Code's built-in extension manifests with a .NET 10 file-based app and show why Git and TypeScript shut down in an untrusted workspace; a short, justified extension list, .vscode/extensions.json, Settings Sync, extensions.allowed and lessons from Marketplace incidents.
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.