My JetBrains Rider Plugins — July 2024 Edition

I’ve been using JetBrains Rider for quite some time now.

I started using JetBrains Rider because I used both a Windows PC and a Mac PC and I wanted a consistent experience between the both. JetBrains Rider provided that and now I am hooked.

I thought I’d take some time to blog about the plugins I use to help with my day-to-day coding (mostly in Microsoft .NET and Azure), presenting (public speaking), and blogging (using Jekyll).

All of these plugins can be downloaded from either the JetBrains plugin Marketplace or directly in the IDE.

This is an updated post from a previous post I wrote in June 2022.

So here is the list.

General Development

Plugin	What it does
.env files support	As the name implies, it provides environment variable completion for Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml files
GitHub Copilot	GitHub Copilot uses OpenAI Codex to suggest code and entire functions in real-time right from your editor. Note: This plugin is free but requires a paid subscription service
JetBrains AI Assistant	JetBrains AI Assistant provides AI-powered features for software development based on the JetBrains AI Service. The service transparently connects you, as an IDE user, to different large language models (LLMs). Note: This plugin is free but requires a paid subscription service
Key Promoter X	Let’s you know if there is a keystroke shortcut for any mouse based IDE commands
Structured Logging	Contains some useful analyzers for structured logging. Supports Serilog, NLog, and Microsoft.Extensions.Logging
Uno Platform	The Uno Platform plugin for JetBrains Rider enables Hot Reload support for Uno Platform apps, streamlining the development of cross-platform .NET Mobile, Web, and Desktop Apps.

Microsoft Specific Development

The only plugin in this category was a .NET user secret plugin. This is no longer needed as the IDE now supports this feature.

Azure Specific Development

Plugin	What it does
Application Insights Debug Log Viewer	Provides the ability to view Azure Monitor (Application Insights) telemetry in the IDE
Azure Toolkit for Rider	Rider plugin for integration with Azure cloud services. Allow to create, configure, and deploy .Net Core and .Net Web Apps to Azure from Rider on all supported platforms

Presenting

Plugin	What it does
Window Resizer	This plugin let you quickly resize windows to any of the following predefined orientations/sizes

Writing

I know longer have anything in this category since I use GitHub Copilot and JetBrains AI Assistant.

No longer in the list

Plugin	What it does	Why did it drop
Presentation Assistant	This plugin shows name and Win/Mac shortcuts of any action you invoke	Built into the IDE now
PowerShell	Provides PowerShell intellisense and script execution support for IntelliJ IDEs	Turns out I don’t edit PowerShell scripts that often
Rainbow Brackets	Provides colored brackets, parentheses, and lines in the IDE	Built into the IDE now
String Manipulation	Case switching, sorting, filtering, incrementing, aligning to columns, grepping, escaping, encoding… Very helpful when working with tabular data	No longer a need for this plugin
Azure DevOps	Azure DevOps is a plugin to enable working with Git and TFVC repositories on Azure DevOps Services or Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2015+	Built into the IDE now
Grazie	Intelligent spelling and grammar checks for any text you write in the IDE	Between Github CoPilot and JetBrains AI Assistant, it covers what I need
Grazie Professional	Enhances the base Grazie plugin with advanced writing assistance for English text in your IDE.	Between Github CoPilot and JetBrains AI Assistant, it covers what I need
.NET Core User Secrets	Provides the ability to create and edit user secrets in .NET projects	Built into the IDE now

Wrap Up

You’ll also notice that a lot of the plugins I used to use are now built into the IDE.

Do you have a favorite not listed? Let me know.