Visual Studio - Keeps Opening

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Every time I double click a script within unity, it opens a new instance of visual studio instead of creating a new tab within visual studio for the new script. This is really slow and driving me nuts lol is there a way to fix this so that all scripts that you open from unity create tabs within one instance of VS? As it is, I have to wait for visual studio to boot up every time I open every script…I dont know why this started doing this. Unity 2022 and VS 2019. Different versions of VS are still doing it, both newer and older.

Thanks!

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Hi!

It is not the expected behavior indeed.

  • Please make sure you are using the latest VS Editor Package in your Unity project (should be 2.0.20 as of today). [Window / Unity package manager]
  • Double-check that Visual Studio is set as your preferred external editor in Unity (do not use internal open). [Edit / Preferences / External tools]
  • We recommend using VS2022.

Thanks!

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Thank you. Installing the package fixed the issue!

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I’ve installed version 2.0.22 and I’m experiencing the same problem when I click on any error debug on the Unity console. It keeps opening a new instance of VS2022 with the file that raised the error, it should open the file on the current instance of the IDE I suppose. Thank you for your time!

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I’m sorry, adding another answer here since I think I’ve found a possible cause (or at least a way to reproduce the issue).
if I set the VS2022 “Solution Explorer” to “Folder view”, every time that I open a file from Unity it launches a new instance of VS. In the new instance, if I keep the default “solution explorer” view, it works as expected.

I’m trying to have a setup similar to VSCode so I want to have the Solution Explorer with the Folder View visible to select files… is there a better way to have the list of files visible?

(Unity version is 2022.3.9f1)

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I’m having the same issue. Did you find a solution?

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I did fix it but unfortunately I can’t remember how lol hopefully someone else can chime in here. I’m using Visual Studio Code now, not sure if that is relevant.

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did you fix it?

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IM experiencing same after I installed Unity6 together with Microsoft VS and Android. None of their advice work. did you recall how you fixed yours?

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Hi,

Iget the same issue too, but I’ve just open the C# project by a right-click on the scripts folder in Unity side and all was work well after.

Hope to help.