All language subtitles for 4. Fixing Visual Studio Problems

It's a very quick video that I've inserted because I found people that had a few issues with Visual

Studio.

You don't need to be doing anything in this video you don't need to be writing the code it's oldest

example to make my point.

And the problem that some people are getting is when they go to type things within Visual Studio for

example typing debug they're not getting this auto complete they're not getting all this extra information.

And so if I hit the full stop here or the period then it finishes the word debug I can see it changes

color and you can see how I get all these other options as the next thing to type.

So I can type log so alone it knows to auto complete.

So that's what I'm talking about.

If you're not getting that behavior if you're seeing problems if things aren't opening properly in Visual

Studio then I've got a checklist for you.

If everything's fine at the moment you can skip this video and continue on with the course.

But just remember it's here.

If you do have issues in the future so here's a checklist for you to fix Visual Studio problems.

First of all try restarting unity and restarting Visual Studio of course and then also ensure that Visual

Studio is your external editor.

What I mean by that.

Well let's hop over into unity.

Again this is just a blank project.

I've started up to illustrate the point here.

What you want to do is come up to edit preferences or go down to preferences in the middle of the thing

you here preferences and then we click on external tools and Laura says external script editor we want

to make sure that his visual studio 2017 or whichever Visual Studio you're using as part of this course

but I'm using 2017.

Make sure that is the correct one is selected in their next point that you can try to fix problems.

That's just another way to find that is to check that the unity dev tools are installed in Visual Studio.

For that we go within Visual Studio.

We go to Tools and then extensions and updates so into visual studio over into tools and then extensions

and updates up near the top there.

And you can see the very first thing that I have installed is Visual Studio 2017 tools for unity.

So we need to have these unity tools in there if that is not in your list of things that are installed

that could be the reason you are having the problem and then you need to go and find through online

to search for the unity Visual Studio basically Visual Studio Tools for unity is what you need a search

for and find if you don't see that in your installed tools.

The next thing you can try if you're having issues is to check that the script is included in the project.

So to do that within Visual Studio we open up our solution explorer.

So we find under.

Let's see and view solution explorer click on that or you can do control old L if you're on a P.C. and

you can see here is showing us all of the things that should be within our project.

So all the things that Visual Studio says aha I'm going to pay attention to these things.

And within unity I've got one script that I've set up called test.

That's the one I'm doing just for this video and you can see here that test is one of the things that's

listed in all of the things that visual studio thinks is in my project.

If I right click on that you can say I have an option to exclude from the project if I exclude it and

I need to save the changes first.

So that's cool if I exclude it then you can see it has this kind of dotted line pattern around it.

That means that Visual Studio is not going to recognize that the way it should when we go and open that

up from unity.

It's going to be a little bit confused a little bit upset about what's going on.

So here we go.

It's not going to do the right kind of behavior we're expecting.

So if you finally you've got that dotted line around it right click including Project blank back over

here.

So yeah including project and then it should change color and look the way it's supposed to.

OK.

So that's including the files particularly the scripts.

Make sure that all your scripts are in the project because scripts is what we're editing in Visual Studio

OK.

Fifth point out of six points.

Try updating Visual Studio.

How do you do that.

Well we go over to help and then help and let's see should be in here somewhere check for updates.

So just as you would do with any software check for updates and make sure that you have the latest version

of Visual Studio if nothing else has fixed it.

And then also you can install and use a different version of Unity I'm using twenty eighteen point one

at the moment later on in the course I'm using twenty eighteen point two.

Either of those should work just fine if using 2017 or something older that might be why you're getting

issues so make sure that you are up to date with unity so there's a checklist.

Feel free to come back to this in the future if you do have problems if you don't have problems.

Excellent.

Most people don't but I wanted to make sure I got this video in early just in case you do.

OK.

Let's get back to continuing with our no wizard.