Visual Studio Not Showing Errors

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Hi,

I’ve recently invested in a shinny new laptop for the sole purpose of proactive work.

However after installing Unity and Visual Studio, Visual Studio just isn’t working the way I’m used to.

To be specific it isn’t showing errors or anywhere near as much autofill information as on my old laptop.

At first it was kind of fun, having to figure out my mistakes from the error messages in unity, but after a couple days I am most definitely over it.

Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.

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Do you have the Visual Studio package in the project, and Visual Studio set as the external code editor?

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This may help you with intellisense and possibly other Visual Studio integration problems:

Sometimes the fix is as simple as doing Assets → Open C# Project from Unity. Other times it requires more.

Other times it requires you also nuke the userprefs and .vsconfig and other crufty low-value high-hassle files that Visual Studio tends to slowly damage over time, then try the above trick.

Barring all that, move on to other ideas:

Also, try update the package inside of Unity: Window → Package Manager → Search for Visual Studio Editor → Press the Update button

Depending on flavor and version of Visual Studio, it may also have an installation step that you perform within the actual Visual Studio. This step seems finicky at best and may require multiple openings of VS before it comes up.

Update: The VSCode extension has been deprecated and abandoned:

Update: the VSCode integration is back… maybe!?

There may be a community fork available that is receiving updates.

Also, this: No suggestions in Vscode

Recently (July 2023) I worked on a Windows11 system that required a Microsoft component to be installed from within Visual Studio before it would work properly with all the OTHER software installed under Unity. I have no documentation on that process as I have only seen it once and it surprised me as well.

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Thankyou for all the help.

I’m honestly not sure which one did the trick, I just started updating everything and half way through the list, Bingo.