VisualStudio development UE4 project settings

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Recommended plug-ins

Visual Assist X

• C ++ code highlighting

UnrealVS Extension

• UE4安装目录/引擎版本号/Engine/Extras/UnrealVS/VS2015/UnrealVS.vsix Double-click the installation

VSColorOutput

• The compilation process output Output of different colors, such as red error, can also customize the display rules

Productivity Power Tools

• A set of tools to enhance the collection VS

P4VS Addin

• P4VS Plug-in directly in  VS the execution of  P4 operations
• Tutorial

Project Settings

basic settings

Display line number ( Tools > Options > Text Editor > All Languages > General)

• Check Line numbers

Tab Is set to 4 characters ( Tools > Options > Text Editor > All Languages > Tabs)

• Tab Size, Indent size 4 are filled
• Check Keep tabs

Font settings ( Tools > Environment > Fonts and Colors)

• Show settings for Select  Text Editor, Font set  Consolas font, Size set to 12
• Show settings for Select  Output Window, Font set  Consolas font, Size set to 11

Development settings

Expand  Solution Configurations and  Solution Platforms width of the drop-down box

• 右键工具栏 > Customize... > Commands > Toolbar > Standard > Solution Configurations > Modify Selection > Width To 200
• 右键工具栏 > Customize... > Commands > Toolbar > Standard > Solution Platforms > Modify Selection > Width To 200

Close  Error List Window

• Tools > Options > Projects and SolutionsUncheck Always show Error List if build finishes with errors

turn on Disable External Dependencies Folders

• Tools > Options > Text Editor > C/C++ > Advanced > Browsing/Navigation

shut down Edit & Continue

• Tools > Options > Debugging > Enable Edit and Continue

shut down IntelliSense

• UE4 in official documents is the recommended open, but not very useful, and very performance consuming, if the machine is configured (high-end CPU, solid state drives, large memory), can be considered open
• Tools > Options > Text Editor > C/C++ > Advanced > IntelliSense Will be  Disable IntelliSense set to True

Fallback Location Set up

• This setting is not under the project directory in order to produce  .sdf such documents
• Tools > Options > Text Editor > C/C++ > Advanced > Fallback LocationWe will Always Use Fallback Location and  Do Not Warn If Fallback Location Used are set to True

Enhanced debugging

• To  UE4安装目录/引擎版本号/Engine/Extras/VisualStudioDebugging/UE4.natvis copy files to  VS安装目录/Common7/Packages/Debugger/Visualizers/UE4.natvis and  计算机用户名/My Documents/Visual Studio 2015/Visualizers/UE4.natvis in
• This will in Debugtime directly view  FString and other contents of the container

File encoding settings

• The source file is  UTF8 encoded, File -> Advanced Save Options -> Unicode (UTF8 no signature) - code page 65001
• Try using other text files  UTF8 encoded

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