How to switch to default visual studio error handler?

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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It is really annowying. Forget a semi-colon and spend 2 hours on debugging because the error message is “Failed to generate code” instead of telling you “Expected ‘;’ before whatever”, like it is by default in C++ programming…

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Hi Marron, I’m sorry this has caused you trouble. Unfortunately, even though we try hard, we’re probably never going to be able to make UnrealHeaderTool is robust as any C++ compiler. However, I’d like to hear more about your case. Can you post the code that caused this failure? We’ll try to add code to UnrealHeaderTool to handle this case with a meaningful message.

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Sorry, I can’t post the code, but it is like this: My code just didn’t want to build, and the error I got is “Failed to generate code”, and the problem in my code was that I forgot a “;” symbol. Try it yourself. Go to some code you wrote and delete a semi-colon, and see what error you get. I tried it and I still got the same error if I remove a semi-colon. What I wanted to say is that error messages are not helpful. Thanks for your attention.

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Ok, we’ll try it on our end. Thanks.

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Hi Marron,

as Robert said, we fix such issues on case by case basis. I analyzed couple of our headers and removed semicolons in various places. I found one case which wasn’t handled properly and committed fix for that in CL#2260578. If that doesn’t help - could you try to reproduce your problem in UE4 codebase so we have exact reproduction of your problem?

Thanks,
Mikolaj