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C# IDE Recommendations

Users debate and recommend IDEs like Visual Studio, JetBrains Rider, and VSCode for C# and .NET development, sharing experiences on performance, features, and cross-platform support.

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Ygg2 • Jun 4, 2022 • View on HN

Try Jetbrains Rider. It's miles ahead of VS, but don't expect a miracle.

sosodaft • May 16, 2017 • View on HN

Visual Studio seems like an odd choice...

odonnellryan • Aug 4, 2015 • View on HN

Do you use JetBrains products for VS? If not, you're really missing out.

ed_elliott_asc • Nov 9, 2021 • View on HN

No visual studio or rider, vscode support isn’t great from my experience.

GordonS • Sep 29, 2019 • View on HN

Have you tried JetBrains Rider?I've been using Visual Studio for many years, but it still needs the ReSharper plugin to be truely great. As much as I love VS, I've always found it to be a little buggy, and I grew tired of listening to my laptop fans whining constantly.I switched to Rider, and I love it! It took a while to find a theme that worked for me, but I have it setup perfectly now. There is honestly very little it can't do that VS can, but that goes vice-versa too. I

pjmlp • Sep 24, 2024 • View on HN

Visual Studio, mostly. Otherwise go for Rider.

symlinkk • Mar 22, 2023 • View on HN

Visual Studio is a legacy product. You should be switching to VSCode.

high_na_euv • Apr 30, 2025 • View on HN

For c#/cpp visual studio is really, really good

hikarudo • Oct 29, 2017 • View on HN

Wait, what's wrong with using Visual Studio Community?https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/community/

inondle • Sep 27, 2017 • View on HN

I'm guessing the reason you use this over VS is that it has ReSharper baked in?