Unity not opening scripts in Visual Studio (Visual Studio Editor package installed)

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Hello,

I installed a fresh Windows 11 system and then installed:

• Unity Hub
• Unity Editor
• Visual Studio Community 2022 with “Game development with Unity” workload

Unity works normally and the project loads correctly.

However, Unity does not seem to integrate properly with Visual Studio.

Problem:
When I double-click a C# script in Unity, Visual Studio does not open.

What I already checked:

  1. In Unity Preferences → External Tools
    External Script Editor is set to Visual Studio.

  2. The “Visual Studio Editor” package is installed from Package Manager.

  3. Visual Studio was installed with the “Game development with Unity” workload.

  4. Restarted Unity and Visual Studio.

Despite this, scripts still do not open in Visual Studio.

Questions:

• Is there any additional Unity package required for Visual Studio integration?
• Is there a way to force Unity to regenerate the .csproj and solution files?
• Could this be related to newer Unity versions or Visual Studio updates?

Edit → Preferences → External Tools screenshot

I tried to change it to Open by file extension and then also Browse and browsed to the exe file like i saw in tutorials, but all this didn’t work. i also tried to mark more checkboxes then the two checked already by default. Registry packages , git packages and the rest and then clicked on Regenerate project files and then it did create many .csproj files in the project root folder, but nothing worked.

i also tried to create a new fresh project with a new empty script but still not working.

the MonoBehaviour is still black in the visual studio.

using UnityEngine;

public class Movements : MonoBehaviour
{
    // Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        
    }
}

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Unity version: [6.3 LTS (6000.3.10f1) ]
Visual Studio version: [Visual Studio 2026 Community Stable 18.3.2]
Windows version: Windows 11 pro

Any advice would be appreciated.

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I have the same problem and I am waiting for Unity or Microsoft to solve it. I like to develop using VS and do not want to use Rider or VS Code. Need to wait for a solution