Rider ¶

Rider is a .NET IDE (C#, Unity, Unreal Engine, .NET, C++...) powered by JetBrains and exclusively available in a paid version.

👉 JetBrains IDEs share many features explained here.

Features

• 🌱 provide advanced support for game engines
• 🚀 recognize old code snippets and suggest upgrades
• 🔥 recognize simple mistakes and suggest fixes
• ⏳ can generate common code snippets (equals, getters...)
• 🫧 inform and suggest fixes for many code smells
• ...

Solutions ¶

Rider implements the concept called solution (source). A solution is a sort of master project composed of multiple related projects.

Assuming a ClassLibrary with MyClass.cs:

namespace ClassLibrary1.Sub;

public class MyClass
{
    public void Main()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Hello, World!");
    }
}

Inside another project of the solution, you can use:

using ClassLibrary1.Sub; // ex: in Program.cs

var myClass = new MyClass();
myClass.Main();

By triggering JetBrains import features, you can automatically add the new project to the project file.

...
    <ItemGroup>
      <ProjectReference Include="..\ClassLibrary1\ClassLibrary1.csproj" />
    </ItemGroup>
...

Dotnet executable ¶

The dotnet executable is installed at: C:\Users\<username>\.dotnet\dotnet.exe on Windows.

💡 When building and running a program, you can see that path.

Solution To File System ¶

You can use this dropdown to see the .csproj files and other files hidden by the default solution view.

Unity Game Engine ¶

To use Rider as the script editor in Unity, navigate to: Edit > Preferences > External tools. If Rider is not detected, browse it:

• Search Rider in Windows Search bar
• Right-click > Shown in explorer
• Right-click again > Shown in explorer
• Double-click on the path > copy the path
• Then in Unity, paste the path
• And select "rider64"