Visual Studio 2017 does not recognize Unity Project properly.

Unity Engine
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What Happens;

  • I’ve installed Visual Studio 2017 with VS tools included in it.

  • I’ve selected it as the code editor in the Unity preferences.

  • About menu shows that Visual Studio Tools enabled. Version: 3.x.

  • When I launch a script from the editor, Visual Studio 2017 successfully launches.

  • But; None of the features of VS Tools are active. Such as Attach to Unity, Unity Explorer, and so on so forth.

  • Everything works fine with Visual Studio 2015.

What I’ve tried and did not work;

  • I’ve tried to uninstall everything with Mircosoft’s open source tool TotalUninstaller and just installed 2017 without 2015 at all. Did restarts in between.

  • Manually importing Unity Package of VS Tools 2017 into the project.

  • Deleting .vs and solution files and forcing them to regenerate.

  • Different Unity versions; 5.3.6p4, 5.3.3f1, 5.3.7p3

Questions;

  • Is there some sort of compatibility issue with 5.3.x versions that I’m missing?
  • Does anyone got it work with 5.3.x, how?
  • Any idea how to resolve this issue?
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It’s working fine with Unity v5.5.1f1, I didn’t do anything special when installing - just ticked the box in the VS2017 installation.

Have you tried any version after 5.3? Try 5.5, if that works then I guess the problem is with <5.5…?

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Seems like it is not supported for older versions of Unity.

I’ve tried

5.3.3f1
5.3.7p3
5.3.6p4
and
5.5.1f1 (works)

so far.

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It doesn’t work on 5.3, on 5.5.1 an up works fine.

5

doesn’t work with 5.4 either

6

What box are you referring to?

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7

Mac installer looks a lot different, not sure if you’ve this checkbox or not :slight_smile: But anyways my issue was with 5.3. 5.5 works fine.

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I’m referring to the Windows version, on Mac I just use VS Code. I believe Mac VS is just Xamarin? It’s certainly not the same as the Windows version.