Posts tagged with ".NET"

A few years ago, I wrote about how ReSharper's Search with Pattern feature helped me refactor a massive C# codebase in minutes. The technique was powerful, but creating those custom search and replace patterns meant using ReSharper to define them. Alternatively, you could hand-craft XML in DotSettings files—tedious work that required memorizing the exact structure, generating GUIDs, and configuring placeholder properties correctly.

Recently, I explored how Agent Skills are becoming an open standard that works across different AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and JetBrains Junie. This got me thinking: what if I could combine these two powerful developer tools? What if an Agent Skill could automate the tedious part of creating ReSharper and Rider patterns?

This post shows how I built exactly that—a practical Agent Skill that generates properly formatted DotSettings XML for custom search and replace patterns in Rider and ReSharper, just by describing what you want in natural language to your AI coding assistant.

.NET 11 Preview 1 ships a groundbreaking feature: Runtime Async. Instead of relying solely on the C# compiler to rewrite async/await methods into state machines, the .NET runtime itself now understands async methods as a first-class concept. This article explores what Runtime Async is, why it matters, what changed in Preview 1, and how you can experiment with it today.

In C#, partial has long been a practical bridge between human-authored code and tool-generated code. With C# 14, that bridge gets wider: instance constructors and events can now be declared as partial members.

This article explains what “more partial members” means in C# 14, the rules that keep it predictable, and the generator-heavy scenarios it's intended to support.

Extension methods have been a core C# feature since version 3.0, enabling developers to add methods to types without modifying source code. With C# 14 and .NET 10, Microsoft introduces extension members—a powerful enhancement that extends beyond methods to include properties, operators, and static members.

This comprehensive guide explores how C# 14 extension members enable you to add mathematical operators to Point, create static factory properties for IEnumerable<T>, and organize extensions more elegantly than ever before.