Rider plugin/support

[se5a]

I've started using Jetbrain's Rider on linux, unlike MD it doesn't have the installation and other issues and works 'out of the box', unlike MD I've had to do very little in the way of figuring out how to enable key features etc.
Although a little heavier than MD, it feels lighter and more responsive than VS. it's cross platform so I'll likely start using it on my windows platform as well.

Rider is still in development so I'm not sure if it's quite there as far as plugin support for what would be required for an eto.forms designer plugin, but there's a blog post here: https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2017/02/07/rider-front-end-plugin-development/
discussing what can be done.

[SlowLogicBoy]

I would like that too, even was considering doing it myself, but as of yet Rider doesn't support plugins (officially) yet, however plugins are written the same way as for intellij.

[se5a]

That depends on your definition of officially
They have a bunch of plugins on the site.
it does support plugins, but it's not feature complete yet. whether it's feature complete enough for what we'd require for a forms designer, and whether the API will change too much in the future to make it worth doing in the immediate future is the real question.

[cwensley]

Hm, does it support .NET plugins? It looks like Rider is java-based. To get the designer at least, it will have to run and allow .NET UI to be embedded into it. Otherwise, the designer might be best as a separate app.

[harry-cpp]

To get the designer at least, it will have to run and allow .NET UI to be embedded into it.

I don't think we can get any of our Eto backends embedded in it...