Generate Visual Studio Code Project - grayed out

[JustinM]

“Generate visual studio Code Project” is not selectable in my File pull down.

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Windows 10
Unreal Engine 4.25.4
Visual Studio 16.8.2
Visual Studio Code 1.51.1

Tried reinstalling Unreal, Visual Studio, and VSC

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Update:

This resource may have got me going again:
https://puppet-master.net/blog/docs/unreal-engine-4/programming/how-to-add-c-support-for-a-unreal-project/

(Still needed to paste the defines in from the Unreal C++ course recourses - defines.txt)

Did the “None” option to start with - don’t know if that was the best option yet

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[DanM]

Do you have Visual Studio Code installed? Visual Studio Community and Visual Studio Code are different products.

[JustinM]

Yes - tried reinstalling both (sorry - updated post to include that)

[DanM]

And what if you create an Actor class, does it give you the option then? Or what about restarting the editor?

[JustinM]

Currently, I have found that I have to either start a new project with a C++ template or (if I already started with a blueprint template) create a new C++ Class in order for it to generate the code files and launch VSC. Either way, I believe, I may be back on track to continue with the course.

[DanM]

Did you create a blueprint project before, then? It can’t generate a VS Code project (or any other) if there’s no source code to generate the project files for.