Unreal can't access visual studio

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This is a very newbieish question, and I apologise. But I have googled everything I can think of and looked everywhere, and so I throw myself on your mercy.

Currently, when I try to open visual studio from Unreal Engine, it looks like this. http://imgur.com/gallery/FiCg5 The tab “generate Visual Studio Project” is faded, and I can’t click it. I have no idea why.

I definitely have VS installed, because I’ve got it open right now, and I can find it seperately in my programs folder. I’ve followed the steps in this tutorial to setup the UnrealVS extension: UnrealVS Extension | Unreal Engine Documentation. I’ve restarted Unreal Engine entirely. But nothing changes.

None of it seems to recognise that it’s supposed to be part of Unreal Engine, and I can’t figure out how to do so. Can someone help? Thanks in advance.

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Hi, Couple of things

  1. Is the project a C++ project and not a blueprints project?
  2. try creating a new C++ class from the editor and see if it opens VS project.
  3. Navigate to the project folder and right click the .uproject file and generate VS project files and then use the .sln file to start VS or open the solution from VS.
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Thanks a lot, creating a new C++ class appears to have fixed the problem. It’s always something very simple, isn’t it? Thanks for your help.

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yes it is. have fun :slight_smile:

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