Are we able to use Visual Studio 2026 with the latest UE version and past UE versions?

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Are we able to use Visual Studio 2026 with UE 5.7 (and UE 5.4)? Or is this something that will only be integrated into later versions of UE, ie. 5.8?

We noticed that it wasn’t specified on here: https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/unreal-engine/setting-up-visual-studio-development-environment-for-cplusplus-projects-in-unreal-engine?application_version=5.7

Thanks!

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Hey there,

You can use VS2026 in 5.7; you just need to make sure that you are compiling with the 2022 toolchain, specifically the MSVC v143 - VS 2022 C++ x64/x86 build tools (v14.38-17.8) component. We also intend to bump up support for VS2026 to 5.8, but it is in testing and may not land. Once 5.8 is released, we will announce for sure.

Dustin

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