Version 4.22 and Visual Studio 2019

Development Programming & Scripting
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I recently uninstalled my Visual Studio 2017 cause with the release of 2019 and Unreal Engine 4.22 supporting it i wanted to swap to the new version. However it seems like its not possible to create new c++ projects with 4.22 if your only installed Visual Studio is 2019. It fails with:

**An error occurred while trying to generate project files.

Running C:/Program Files/Epic Games/UE_4.22/Engine/Binaries/DotNET/UnrealBuildTool.exe -projectfiles -project=“C:/Users/Eric/Documents/Unreal Projects/MyProject/MyProject.uproject” -game -rocket -progress
Discovering modules, targets and source code for project…
WARNING: Visual Studio C++ 2017 installation not found - ignoring preferred project file format.
ERROR: Visual Studio 2017 must be installed in order to build this target.

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Is there a way to tell Unreal to use the 2019 Visual Studio for project file generation or is this simply a bug/not supported yet and i actually have to install 2017 again until this is fixed?

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Did you change unreal source code editor? If not its in Edit > Editor Preferences > General : Source Code. You need existing project as far as i know.

3

This worked creating a blueprint only project and changing the default settings to VS2019 solved the issue.

4

is visual studio 2017 working still with unreal 4.22 or do i need install studio 2019?

5

It worked for me, thanks.

6

I still cannot create C++ project with UE 4.22 with VS 2k19. I have changed source code to VS2019.

7

I had same issue before.

Solved after install “Game development using C++” in “Mobile and Game” category from “Visual Studio Installer”.
I’m using Korean version VS, so not sure above is exact English title.

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I’m trying to do this, but while it says the default settings are writable, the “Set as Default” button is grayed out. Would you know the problem here? Thanks.

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For me, I previously set the editor to Visual Studio 2017. Deleting the corresponding config lines in Config/DefaultEditorSettings.ini and Config/DefaulEngine.ini solved this for me.

For related problems with somewhat-out-of-date engine compilation, I needed to install a previous .NET SDK (4.6.2) and uninstall a more recent Windows 10 SDK (the previous Windows 10 SDK was sufficient).

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This is what solved the issue for me. The English title is also “Game development using C++”.