Best Plugins For JetBrains IDEs
Discover language-agnostic and -dependent plugins for IntelliJ IDEA that may be a great help in your daily fight with tasks that will make your work easier.
 

ktaranov/sqlserver-kit: Useful links, scripts, tools and best practice for Microsoft SQL Server Database 

For .NET and cloud developers, we’ve focused on improving the inner-loop dev experience. New .http/.rest files make it easier to test and iterate on your APIs directly in Visual Studio, while improved Dev Tunnels help streamline the configuration and management of your webhooks. We’ve also made it easier than ever to deploy your ASP.NET apps to containers.

Game developers can now view properties from base classes modified in an Unreal Blueprint asset without leaving the IDE. Visual Studio has improved the cross-platform development experience with a new remote file explorer, Linux Console output to the Integrated Terminal window, dev container improvements, and more.

Beyond individuals, Visual Studio also has new features to better support dev teams at scale, with exportable configuration files and a persistent update toggle helping ensure everyone on your team is working from the latest version of the tool.

This blog covers several of the top new features in Visual Studio 17.5—to see some in action, watch the Visual Studio 17.5 release video. As always lot of these features come straight from your feedback and suggestions. Your feedback is critical to help us make Visual Studio the best tool it can be! 

"Our goal with Angular 2 is to make the best possible set of tools for building web apps not constrained by maintaining backwards compatibility with existing APIs." —Angular blog 

Visual Studio Dev Essentials is a new free developer offering from Microsoft. A free membership to this program gives you access to a range of benefits including developer tools and services, training and support. This video provides an overview of some key benefits, including Visual Studio Community, Visual Studio Team Services, Pluralsight training, and HackHands live programming help 

In the Jungle of .NET Obfuscator Tools 

HN Tools of The Trade, 2014 Edition 

If you are updating to EF Core 8, consider using the daily builds, or wait for the 31 fixes coming in 8.0.2 in Februrary 2024 

We’re excited to announce the release of .NET Core 2.1. It includes improvements to performance, to the runtime and tools. It also includes a new way to deploy tools as NuGet packages.