{"id":488770,"date":"2024-07-01T17:54:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T16:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jetbrains.com\/?post_type=dotnet&p=488770"},"modified":"2025-09-17T08:02:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T07:02:03","slug":"rider-2024-2-eap-5","status":"publish","type":"dotnet","link":"https:\/\/blog.jetbrains.com\/en\/dotnet\/2024\/07\/01\/rider-2024-2-eap-5","title":{"rendered":"Rider 2024.2 EAP 5: Reader Mode, Monitoring for Game Dev, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rider 2024.2 EAP 5 has just landed<\/a>! This build brings a variety of new features and improvements to enhance your development experience. As always, your feedback is invaluable in helping us refine these updates, so we encourage you to try out the new build and share your thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n

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UX\/UI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Reader mode<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Reader mode is now available in Rider 2024.2 EAP 5. It’s designed to make reading library and read-only files, including decompiled ones, a whole lot easier, and it includes inline rendering of documentation comments for C# and F#, as well as virtual indenting for C#.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Virtual indenting modifies the style of read-only code to match your preferred layout. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Extract common code<\/em> refactoring for C#<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Rider\u2019s latest refactoring enhancement enables you to extract common code out of branching statements such as if<\/code> or switch<\/code>. This update streamlines and consolidates shared logic, ensuring it\u2019s executed regardless of the branching path, improving code readability, and reducing redundancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sticky lines for C++ <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the sticky lines for preprocessor directives introduced in EAP 3, Rider 2024.2 now offers sticky lines for accessibility specifiers in C++. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accessibility specifiers (public<\/code>, protected<\/code>, and private<\/code>) define the access control for class members. The new sticky lines feature keeps these specifiers visible at the top of the editor window as you scroll, helping you quickly identify access levels and better manage complex class hierarchies by maintaining constant visibility of the encapsulation and inheritance structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enhanced Monitoring <\/em>tool window<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Monitoring <\/em>tool window inside Rider 2024.2 supports a broader range of application types. This tool window is now displayed during running and debugging for the following project types:<\/p>\n\n\n\n