IDE

August 26, 2025 ยท View on GitHub

This is ultimately developer preference. These are the suggested IDEs

Free

Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio 2022

Free for open source

JetBrains Rider


Dev Container

Rather than installing a bunch of stuff locally, such as the right dotnet SDK you can use a dev container!

You will, however, need to have docker installed locally.

Rider

Click the blue cube,

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Then press Create Dev Container and Mount Sources -> Rider

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Rider will then create the dev-container, mounting Rider's backend IDE. When complete, you will be able to connect to the dev-container.

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Framework

We're utilizing C# Net 9.0 right now Net 9.0

We're using Discord.NET as our bot library

Discord.Net Doc Site

Discord.NET Github

Docker

Having docker installed is required as it can be used for the dev container, along with running the services.

Docker

Misc

Make sure you have Git installed on your machine!