Visual Studio 2019 Auto Completion is not working for scripts

[lvskiprof]

I found this post, which describes the basic problem, but it is closed:

OnTriggerEnter2D Not Auto Completing or Highlighting Blue

Hello, I’ve been following the class so far without issues, however for whatever reason when typing OnTriggerEnter2D it doesn’t pop up the autocomplete options. If I continue the command manually it never highlights it blue. Am I missing something? I do want to point out that all the code is working as expected. The ball dropping off the screen causes the game to proceed to the “Game Over” scene. [image] [image]

Reading it gave me a good idea though. Instead of double-clicking on the script icon in Unity, I brought up VS2019 and browsed to the Solution file and opened it. Now it is providing auto completion for the UnityEngine.UI elements of the code.

In the 2D lectures I can see he is simply double-clicking on the script icon and getting this to work, so it sounds like there is a configuration in either Unity or Visual Studio 2019 that needs to be set for this.

Any suggestions as to what needs to be set where?

Mike

[Nina]

Hi Ivskiprof,

Please watch lecture “Fixing Visual Studio Problems” (currently #4 in the Unity 2D course, and #7 in the 3D course). Did this help?

[lvskiprof]

Hi Nina,

That did help. I had moved from a VM to being native on my system and had forgotten to set Visual Studio as the external editor.

However, I think that in addition to that there was a setting I enabled that is not shown in the video. In Unit Preferences for External Tools there is a checkbox now called “Generate all .csproj files”. When I clicked that, closed everything, and restarted it I now see completion of the Debug name when I type “deb.”. That never happened before and I know I had set VS as the external editor in my VM version, so I think this is important.

Note that I am using VS2019 and Unity 2019.3.9f1, so this appears to be a new setting. Maybe the video needs to be updated to show this, since he is using VS2017 and Unity 2018 in it.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Mike

[lvskiprof]

Follow up note. I tried it without that checkbox selected and auto completion still works.

Thanks for the help.

[Nina]

Thank you for letting us know that the video helped you fix the issue.

[lvskiprof]

I have been doing customer support for many years, so I know how important it is to share in the forum what the solution was.

Regards,

Mike Riley

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