IDE Support (Preview)¶
The Reqnroll team now provides Reqnroll IDE Support for all three major IDEs used by Reqnroll developers — Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and JetBrains Rider — with the same advanced feature set across all of them: syntax highlighting, diagnostics, completion, navigation between steps and bindings, refactoring, and more. Whichever IDE you use, you get the same capabilities and the same editing experience.
Visual Studio
VS Code
Rider
Preview status
This extension is currently in Preview. It can be installed alongside the existing Reqnroll for Visual Studio extension — installing one does not remove the other, and there is no automatic migration between them — but running both enabled at once is not a supported configuration; see Troubleshooting / FAQ. It is intended to eventually replace the legacy Visual Studio extension once feature parity and stability criteria are met.
Installation — install the extension for your IDE
Upgrading — what happens on first install vs. an upgrade
Feature Overview — every feature, with a per-IDE support matrix
Editing Features — syntax highlighting, diagnostics, completion, formatting, clickable tags
Navigation Features — jump between steps, bindings, and hooks
Running Scenarios — run/debug a scenario’s generated test from the
.featurefileNew Project / Item Templates — Visual Studio project/item wizards
Extension Settings — configure the extension per IDE
Gherkin Formatting with EditorConfig — consistent formatting via
.editorconfigKeyboard Shortcuts — every Reqnroll command’s shortcut/menu location, one table per IDE
Troubleshooting / FAQ — known per-IDE limitations, coexistence, reporting bugs
New to Reqnroll itself?
This site covers the IDE extensions only. If you’re new to Reqnroll as a BDD framework, start with the main Reqnroll Quickstart guide instead — it walks through writing your first feature file and step definitions from scratch. Come back here once you’re looking for IDE- specific editing/navigation help.