Question Is VS Code really better for ASP.NET Core Razor development?

[Neal]

I'm new to ASP.NET Core Razor and I'm building out a nopCommerce site while also reading a book on Razor pages. I typically work in Visual Studio 2022 Professional but I also have VS Code (new to me for a few weeks now) and JetBrains Rider I'm also exploring as I'm licensed to use it. The other day I went to debug code in a razor page in the line below and couldn't set a breakpoint unless I right-clicked in the code itself and then when I did hit the breakpoint I couldn't inspect the value on mouse hover to see if it was true or false, etc. Yet in VS Code I can set a breakpoint normally and the hover inspection does work. I'm a bit shocked that Visual Studio is behind VS Code in this regard and possibly a lot more. Now I'm wondering which IDE I should really be using. Line 2 is the one I was debugging.

        </div>
        @if (Model.PictureModels.Count > 1 && Model.DefaultPictureZoomEnabled)
        {
            <div class="picture-thumbs">
                @foreach (var picture in Model.PictureModels)

 

[cjard]

I don't recall any specific problems putting breakpoints in markup when writing Blazor razor in VS 2022.. I haven't tried your exact setup

 

[Neal]

I spent the day using JetBrains Rider. I think I found my new IDE. I've had a license to it but stuck to Visual Studio with Resharper. Going to use Rider as my default going forward and see how things go.

Rider: The Cross-Platform .NET IDE from JetBrains

Develop .NET, ASP.NET, .NET Core, Xamarin or Unity applications on Windows, Mac, Linux

www.jetbrains.com

 

[Neal]

Well, maybe not so fast. I'll stick with Rider for my current project but when I need to start bringing in extension products such as DevExpress that may present an issue.