My JetBrains Rider Plugins—June 2022 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, presenting, and blogging.

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

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
Key Promoter X	Let’s you know if there is a keystroke shortcut for any mouse based IDE commands
PowerShell	Provides PowerShell intellisense and script execution support for IntelliJ IDEs
Rainbow Brackets	Provides colored brackets, parentheses, and lines in the IDE
String Manipulation	Case switching, sorting, filtering, incrementing, aligning to columns, grepping, escaping, encoding… Very helpful when working with tabular data
Structured Logging	Contains some useful analyzers for structured logging. Supports Serilog, NLog, and Microsoft.Extensions.Logging

Microsoft Specific Development

Plugin	What it does
.NET Core User Secrets	Provides the ability to create and edit user secrets in .NET projects

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 DevOps	Azure DevOps is a plugin to enable working with Git and TFVC repositories on Azure DevOps Services or Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2015+
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
Presentation Assistant	This plugin shows name and Win/Mac shortcuts of any action you invoke
Window Resizer	This plugin let you quickly resize windows to any of the following predefined orientations/sizes

Writing

Plugin	What it does
Grazie	Intelligent spelling and grammar checks for any text you write in the IDE
Grazie Professional	Enhances the base Grazie plugin with advanced writing assistance for English text in your IDE. Grazie Professional is a result of the latest developments in deep learning and natural language processing

Wrap Up

Like I started out with, these are the plugins I use every day for coding, presenting, and writing. Do you have a favorite not listed? Let me know.