An error occurred while trying to generate project files

What has happened exactly ; need to start the coding in visual studio express 2015 edition.

Hi,

You should use VS2015 Community.
The error means that Visual Studio has not installed the C++ tools (like the compiler for example).

For some reason Visual Studio does not install those tools by default any more. So make sure upon installation you tick the appropriate boxes :).

Here is a link where you can get it from. Its free and has pretty much everything you`ll need.

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs.aspx

Hi,

I had this sort of problem. Navigate to Control Panel > Programs and Features > Visual Studio 2015 and select “Change”. You can then hit “Modify” and expand “Programming Languages” to select “Visual C++”.

Hope this helps!

This seems a big ridiculous. You have to use VS community with unreal engine?? I use vsCode as it is much more compact and light weight…Is there a way to change it to vsCode?