File header style

Configure file header in JetBrains Rider settings

1. Press Ctrl+Alt+S or choose File | Settings (Windows and Linux) or JetBrains Rider | Preferences (macOS) from the menu , then choose Editor | File Header Template on the left.

2. In the File header text tab, type the text that you want to insert at the beginning of your source files.

   You do not have to include comment delimiters in the file header text. JetBrains Rider will automatically insert proper delimiters for the specific language when the header template is applied.

3. To add variable information, such as date, time, or contributor name, use corresponding macros. The list of available macros is shown in the right part. To use a macro, type it in the header body or click the corresponding macro in the right part to insert it at the current caret position.

   In the File header variables tab, you can specify constant values to be reused in the header text. For example, you can add a variable with the name companyName and the value My company, and then use it in the header template as $Variable.Named($"{companyName}").

4. When applying file header template, by default JetBrains Rider will automatically detect initial comments in the file, if any, as an existing file header and replace them with the specified file header.

   If you want to restrict this behavior and only consider specific comments as file headers, edit the regular expression in the File header start detection regex field. For example, you can change it to Copyright .* to match only initial comments starting with Copyright.

   If you want to reuse the existing header that was matched by the regular expression, add the ${OldHeader.Text} macro in the desired position within the file header template.

5. Optionally, to surround the file header with #region .. #endregion in C#, enter the name of the region in the Embrace File Header into Region with Name field.

6. Click Save in the Settings dialog to apply the modifications and let JetBrains Rider choose where to save them, or save the modifications to a specific settings layer by choosing this layer from the Save selector. For more information, see layer-based settings.

Configure file header via EditorConfig

1. Open the .editorconfig file where you want to configure file header, or create a new one.

2. Add the file_header_template property to the file, for example:

   file_header_template=Your Company. \nSome info about {fileName}

Add file header to newly created files

1. Create a new file template or edit an existing template where you want to add a file header.

2. In the beginning of the template add a template parameter and associate it with the 'File header' macro.

   

3. Save the template.

4. New files created with this template will have the specified file header.

Insert file header into existing files with Code Cleanup

1. Press Ctrl+Alt+S or choose File | Settings (Windows and Linux) or JetBrains Rider | Preferences (macOS) from the menu .

2. Go to the cleanup profiles settings page: Editor | Code Cleanup.

3. Create a new profile as described in the Create a new custom cleanup profile section. In the Selected profile settings section for the new profile, tick the Update file header checkbox. Optionally, you can enable other code cleanup tasks in this profile.

4. Click Save in the Settings dialog to apply the modifications and let JetBrains Rider choose where to save them, or save the modifications to a specific settings layer by choosing this layer from the Save selector. For more information, see layer-based settings.

5. Select the scope where you want to update file header:

   • Place the caret anywhere in the file to update file header to the file.

   • Select one or more items in the Solution Explorer to update file header in the files under these nodes and their child items.

6. Press Ctrl+R, C or choose Code | Reformat and Cleanup… from the main menu.

7. In the Reformat and Cleanup Code dialog that opens, select the newly created profile and choose another scope if needed. .

8. Click OK. JetBrains Rider will update file header in the selected scope.

9. If you want to update file header without opening the Reformat and Cleanup Code dialog to choose a profile, you can bind the created profile to the silent cleanup and run it by pressing Ctrl+R, G. You can also create a custom cleanup profile that would combine inserting file headers with other code style tasks.

Clean up code before committing it to Git

1. Press Ctrl+K or select Git | Commit from the main menu.

2. In the Commit tool window, click and in the Commit Checks area, select the Cleanup with... checkbox.

3. Click Choose profile and choose your custom Code Cleanup profile.

4. Click Commit or Commit and Push. JetBrains Rider will run code cleanup in files staged for the commit, and then commit the changes.

Automatically update file header on saving changes

1. Press Ctrl+Alt+S to open settings and then select Tools | Actions on Save.

2. Select Reformat and Cleanup Code, choose your custom Code Cleanup profile and whether to apply it to the whole file or only to the changed lines.

3. The next time you finish editing and save the file or all files , JetBrains Rider will clean up the affected files using the selected profile.

Share file header style within a team

• If you are configuring file header via .editorconfig, make sure that the corresponding .editorconfig file is added to a version control system.

• If you are configuring file header via JetBrains Rider settings, save your configuration changes to the 'Solution team-shared' settings layer: after making the desired changes, choose Solution 'solutionName' team-shared in the Save selector in the Settings dialog.

  Make sure that the <SolutionName>.sln.DotSettings file is added to a version control system.