How to Setup Visual Studio 2022 for Unreal Engine 5 

1:05 I was following this guide today (Sept. 4th 2024) and was not able to find "IDE Support for Unreal Engine". I believe in newer versions it is now called "Visual Studio Tools for Unreal Engine"

There's so much that can be automated here, I can't believe we need to do all of this manual setup in 2023...

Thanks for the calm and collected approach to setting this up. Other videos are very staccato and difficult to watch and follow. I've been a developer for over 20 years, so I know it's hard, but you have to slow down and you did a great job.

Having worked with UE and VS before, there's so much I didn't know just on the setup, thanks Nu!

Very helpful video! I was about to give up with using Unreal Engine before I watched your video, and it really helped me get my environment all set up!

Thank you for this. I spent 6 hours today stumbling through unreal documentation figuring out how all of this works. I got it working and then I ran into issues. The problem I've had is that with UE 5.3.2 and VS 2022, when I build the solution and then run UE Editor, nothing I do in VS updates the editor, but the editor will override and update VS. Anyways, very thankful to have found this video and still got 10 mins to watch lol

Nicely done, couldn't have figured it out without this guide.

Thank you, very usefull, saved me a lot of time. It is really for a beginner to find all steps to setup everything and this video covers all. 💪

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Came because build was finicky once, left with much more tools that I didn't know I needed. Thanks

Hey! Future Marcus! You're awesome! Thanks for putting this together! My UE coding is actually working correctly now!

I LOVE your desktop background it's so cozy

Thanks for the great video. With regards to *Visual Studio Integration tool* and *As of Visual Studio 2022 version 17.9, you no longer need this plugin to view information about Blueprints in C++ code.*

very nice, having you back

At 12:47 the 'Find All Blueprint References' option does not come up for me. I went back and ensured API was there, and the plugins were all enabled, and everything else he did. to this point .. but it still does not show up. Everything else seems to be working but that one popup option. What am I missing?.

Thanks for the tutorial, thanks to you this engine is finally working

GREAT help, thanks! I loved the speed. I have a pause button. I dislike videos where they have too much dead air time in the audio. I did have some difficulty figuring out which VS menu items to press as a few times they were obscured by the youtube video title. But again, that is what pause, backup, and play are for.

This is an awesome video! Great explanation of what the unreal engine integration tools do in visual studio. Switched back to visual studio after some time of not using it and was a bit confused when the integration pop up opened XD.

This vid didn't solve my exact problem, but solved another and allowed me time to figure out my other issue. 10/10 good sir!

my project has 5 errors reading unreal engine codes, like E0070 incomplete type is not allowed UnrealLearningKit C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.3\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Public\Containers\StringView.h 408

Awesome guide, thx

Top tier content, keep the good work!

Thank you for this video, it saved my sanity! Btw should you pick the blue theme instead of the dark at VS2022 installation, you may run into the issue that the unreal engine configuration check does _Not_ show the little run buttons. Switching the theme to dark fixes that.

this was really helpful, thank you!

Thank you very much!!! another important lesson learned!!!

Thanks

Thanks so much for this fantastic video! Much appreciated :)

Thanks for the help! You saved me many hours of pulling what's left of my hair out.

Bookmarking this for later. You are awesome good sir! I hope I get to sit next to you and pick your brain some day :)

Insanely helpful!

I love your background - where did you find it ?

Excellent tutorial!

I've been following a great course on Udemy but I've been having some issues when it comes to compiling and other processes which really hinder the experience. I've followed the steps on this video and will for sure return if I notice any changes.

Thanks a lot, very clear!

As of May 2024 there appears to be no VS Integration Tool for Unreal 5.4. Is it possible to code in VS without the integration tool? My scripts won't even compile?

You are the best!

Thank you, was very helpfull!

Excellent Video! Can you update the Video for UE5, pleeeease ?😁

any video on actually setting up the scene?

Dude you are my hero your video is the only thing in the whole internet that works to set up visual studio for unreal engine 5.3 xD what a shitshow it is to get that thing to work 💩

SUPER helpful thx

Hey so I have some issues, that are not addressed in this video. I have been trying visual studio code, as they follow in Udemy, but that program have just been broken for me whenever I have tried it, so I tried with visual studio 2022 instead. However when you press F5 to run the build, I get "There were build errors. Would you like to continue and run the last successful build?" However this is the first time I try to build, so when I press yes I get "The following modules are missing or built with a different engine version (Project Name) Would you like to rebuild them?". I press yes again and "(Project Name) could not be compiled. Try rebuilding from source manually" I mean I'm at a lost here. I have googled around for what feels like a week and are close to just stop trying to learn unreal engine all together

Hi, good video and well explained but I'm getting an error in the install overall section, the two first checks always red and says that the integration isn't installed when it actually it is enabled on plugin section. Im not getting errors when building or something so i don't know if I should continue or try to fix it bc I would start a kinda big project with cpp and doesn't want to mess it up later. Thanks!

Very helpful video. There's another question: if I canceled "Show on startup" for the Unreal Engine Integration Configuration window and closed it, how can I re-open this window?

thank you

Can you post your other settings in VS? Specifically how you got the collapsing boxes with + and - back. I hate their little arrows.

Hey @NuMakesGames, Do u by any chance have a way to show how to set up the hlsl support?

3:11 wait what? Editor symbols for debugging? 80 gigs?

Welcome back!

Very nice video, thanks for this knowledge. Did you find the solution for the "empty NameSpace Error" -> UObject -> Class AttemptToFindShortTypeNamesInMetaData which is shown in Test Explorer? Kind regards, Eiven

Thanks for the vid !! I've watched it carefully and I don't understand what is wrong. Visual studio doesn't find any header file or include. I've searched google and it says to set the path to the header file at some point, but I've never done that before and it was working until yesterday and also I haven't found how to do that), and I'm trying with empty project since then and that's the same. I've reinstalled VS with all the settings, checked UE 5.3 several times, tried with 5.2... I don't know what else I can do, I create a new c++ project, the project by default is screwed...

When you debug can you use an already open unreal editor instead of it always opening a new one?

One doubt ..In unreal 5 the downloaded blueprint class files are not opening in viewport...is it cause of visual studio

Can you upload a video on step by step process android game devlopment process using unreal engine 5 c++

I don't even work with UE or VS but this was oddly entertaining

6:10 I dont have plugins

I'm having trouble getting my UBT to create DebugGame configuration I only get Development. Wondering if anyone knows why

Hi, how can i add folder through solution explorer instead of add filter?

Can we code in c# in visual studio and trough it implement it in UE5 ?

when i try to create a project i get this: LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'delayimp.lib'

awsome! saving

Bro I installed the same packages that you choose from beginning of the video but it was 25GB why?

Nice stuff!! What happened to your other video that was about prototyping / greyboxing in Unreal Engine to make quick level design? Swear you had a video on that unless I'm trippin :')

UE5 my beloved 😍

I have a question: you have downloaded that launcher version of UE5 then a source build, are you using the source build for your project? and rebuild it from there? also the integrator is not being install in the source build of the engine. if im using the source build unreal integration configuration showing as not configure, i tried to build a dedicated server using launcher version 5.3 C++ and having error with MSB3073

What do you do when you get "Some issues detected in unreal engine configuration" Where does it tell you where the problems are, is there a log file?

When I click 'Generate Visual Studio project files' like you at 6:52, I don't get the .sln file. Only a .code-workspace file. I don't know what i did wrong.

what if you want to use sdk for android, shall i check mobile development with C++ and multi platform ui app development?

Hi! Does this video apply also if you package a game from the editor ?

use the integration tool in 5.4 :(

Thank you for the post you are a life saver. Your video showed me exactly what I need to do in fast and easy steps. I deserved a like and subscribe.

why this one is not in the documentation? or maybe i just scan not read it? xD

noob question is the first time im using VS, do i have to always do the set up to every individual project like the naming convention etc ?

After i close VS and UE5 Editor and then reopen the UE5 Project, i get "The following modules are missing or built with a different engine version" and its listing the name of the project. Building the game in VS works and using that small compile button in the editor also compiles. I'm so confused whats going on and its really frustrating.

I don't have the option under the step at 6:50, I right click the .uproject and it's just Open with, Share with Skype, Scan with Microsoft Defender, Share, Restore Previous Versions, Send To, Cut, Copy, Create Shortcut, Delete, Rename, and Properties ONLY. There is no option to Generate Visual Studio project files. Every other step I completed successfully. What else do I need to do?

the Unreal Engine test status wont work? any ideas on why that might be

i apprentice you dawg

Do we need this to package a game

For some reason when I F5 I get an error that prevents me from starting the project.

im literally pogging out of my mind

80gb for debug?????? wtf!

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im dreaming

Working with C++ in Unreal Engine is absolute nonsense. Why do we need to do this grotesc setup lol?

Worst tutorial you are going way to fast if anybody is reading this skip this video and pick any other

how to open that "Unreal Engine Integration Configuration" menu?

Thanks for tutorial and the UE 5 tips! Helped a lot

Thanks for your video, but i followed your video step by step, and when i wanna F5 LyraStarterGame proyect, i got like 2.500 errores like this: Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Details Error NU1202 Package OpenTracing 0.12.1 is not compatible with net6.0 (.NETCoreApp,Version=v6.0). Package OpenTracing 0.12.1 does not support any target frameworks. EpicGames.Perforce.Managed C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.3\Engine\Source\Programs\Shared\EpicGames.Perforce.Managed\EpicGames.Perforce.Managed.csproj 1 Error NU1202 Package Microsoft.Extensions.ObjectPool 6.0.8 is not compatible with net6.0 (.NETCoreApp,Version=v6.0). Package Microsoft.Extensions.ObjectPool 6.0.8 does not support any target frameworks. EpicGames.Perforce.Managed C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.3\Engine\Source\Programs\Shared\EpicGames.Perforce.Managed\EpicGames.Perforce.Managed.csproj 1 Error NU1202 Package Microsoft.Extensions.Logging 6.0.0 is not compatible with net6.0 (.NETCoreApp,Version=v6.0). Package Microsoft.Extensions.Logging 6.0.0 does not support any target frameworks. EpicGames.Perforce.Managed C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.3\Engine\Source\Programs\Shared\EpicGames.Perforce.Managed\EpicGames.Perforce.Managed.csproj 1

thanks for this!

Im watching this video because i wanted to go back and see if I missed some steps when I did my installation and notice that the Checklist you show at 10.20, I forgot all about it and can't seem to find it again. Do you happen to know if it's possible to get it to reappear? Btw. fantastic video. Super helpfull! Thanks a bunch for making that recording.

Lifesaver, cheers!

At 7:34 I don't have the option to select Unreal toolbar, how do you get this? I installed the configuration for unreal engine in visual studio and have everything correctly ticked but this option isn't there for me