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I have decided to try out the Rider IDE from Jetbrains. I mainly dev in NET/C# for Azure Functions projects. However, I now realise that it does not support Hot Reload for this scenario, although this is not singled-out in the limitations section of Rider's documentation.

Here's a repro as proof.

Usually, I use VS code for my work, where hot reload also doesn't work. For a personal side-project I have tried the Visual Studio Community edition (free) and I am blown away on how much a working hot reload functionality makes a difference on productivity.

I'm a LOB user and do dev on the side and cannot justify for my boss to pay the VS license. Also due to size of the company, I cannot use the community edition.

Therefore I was really hoping, that Rider was able to support hot reload for Azure Functions since it is advertised as a alternative to Visual Studio and a real IDE (compared to VS code). Unfortunately, this is not the case.

Are there some Rider users out there, that got hot reload working with some extra configuration maybe?

baouss
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Therefore I was really hoping, that Rider was able to support hot reload for Azure Functions

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  • Here you can see the JetBrains is actively tracking the issue related to enabling hot reload support for Azure Functions in Rider under the issue number RIDER-97027. As it indicates that JetBrains is aware of the limitation and is actively considering implementing a solution.

Microsoft has made significant improvements in hot reload capabilities for .NET 5 and later versions, including Azure Functions. You should ensure that you are using a compatible version of the Azure Functions runtime and Visual Studio for the best hot reload experience.

  • Thanks, @Khalid Abuhakmeh for the blog post, JetBrains has introduced hot reload support for .NET 6 in Rider 2021.3. please check this link.

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Suresh Chikkam
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