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.
8 Nov 2026
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