Connecting Unity to Visual Studio

Daniel Kirwan
Mar 12, 2021

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Have you installed Unity and Visual studio but you still lack the IntelliSense that you see in online tutorials?

IntelliSense in action

Does this slow you down?

The good news is there is a simple solution to the problem.

With the Unity editor open click on the edit tab in the top left corner and click preferences:

edit preferences in Unity

Once you have the preferences window open you will then need to find the external tools tab, the top option should allow you to choose your external script editor:

Selecting external tools

And that is it for connecting Visual Studio with Unity and you can close the preferences window. Be on the lookout for more posts about my game development journey and some helpful tips.

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Daniel Kirwan
Daniel Kirwan

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