MSVSC2013: failed to find SLN File

Questions & Answers
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I have this working for my current main project, though i’ve no idea how i managed it. But i get the following error on attempting to open scripts in any newly created project:

Microsoft Visual Studio

The following files were specified on the command line:

E:\Projects\Testing Ground\($File)\UnityVS.($File).sln

These files could not be found and will not be loaded.

OK
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I’m trying to open them via doubleclicking the script asset within unity. Things are supposed to be all setup to go.
what’s wrong here?

3

You must import Visualstudio 2013 tools .unitypackage in your new project.
Then it works in my projects!

2

Have you tried to use the Visual Studio menu in Unity?

  • Create a new project in unity.
  • in Unity: Menu Visual Studio Tools/Generate Project Files
  • in Unity: Menu Visual Studio Tools/Open in Visual Studio

works for me.

4

I encountered this error after upgrading my project to Unity 2018.1.0 beta. Hopefully this can help someone:

I was able to re-generate the .sln files by right-clicking a .cs file in the project view and selecting “Reimport”. Unity then recompiled the project and generated the .sln files.

5

I had the same issue when creating a new project with 2018.1.0f2.

In Unity go to Edit>Preferences>External Tools

Switch External Script Editor from ‘Visual Studio 2015’ to ‘Visual Studio 2017’.

Not sure why 2015 was in there as an option but this solved it for me.