Please help. Issues with compiling, and incorrect installation

Hello I am NEW to Unreal Engine and Visual Studio. I have been having issues with Unreal Engine 5.0.2 and Visual Studio 2022 and attempting to code ever since I tried setting up a project and trying to code.

I want to give a brief overview of the history of issues I found, fixes I tried, and how I now ended up in an issue I have no idea how to fix despite reinstalling both the Epic Launcher, Visual studio 2022, and the Unreal Engine.

I found that I could not build my code on Visual Studio, and would get errors. I could only compile it through the Unreal Engine. I looked up a solution about changing some files in the “Epic Games” folder to “Not Read Only”, and then realized my PC had two epic game launchers downloaded. I just simply “right click deleted” both, and reinstalled it again.

I still had this issue of not being able to build in Visual studio. I figured it was because my original file path was too long for both projects, and the install location for UE5. I tried to rename my filepath that holds my projects to something very short. Upon doing that I had no way to tell the epic launcher where my project file actually was. Because of this, I simply “right click deleted” the engine, and decided to reinstall Unreal engine. I think I made a huge mistake because this likely doesn’t remove everything and may be the reason I have my current issues.

To try and “delete everything” I went into AppData folders, and deleted anything related to Epic Games and Unreal engine, then reinstalled unreal engine again.

Currently right now, whenever I try to make a new C++ Class, it doesn’t show up in the content browser, and I’m pretty sure I have a failure to compile. I would really appreciate if someone knowledgeable would want to verbally talk about this on a platform like discord, or give me advice on how to move forward.

I have no idea what I am doing, but my current issue is: “Unable to parse E:/UE5N/UE_5.0/Engine/Intermediate/LiveCoding.json (missing LinkerPath field)”

UE5N is where I installed my Unreal Engine 5.0.2

Hey @boomboozld! Welcome to the Forums!

I see this is your main issue:

Are you currently actively using live coding? If not I would suggest disabling or rebuilding it.

Here is a thread with more information on the topic:

Error When doing Live coding

I hope the above solution works for you!

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Hey thanks I’ll check this out, I had no idea what the live coding thing was

I am here for the same reason, UE5… I can’t see compiled classes in UE. They appear to compile with VS. but are not visible in UE. after reading other forums, found solution saying to enable live coding and compie in UE with ctrl-alt F11. but in here you say to disable live coding… I get the same error as in this thread.
Note:- disabling live coding is not a fix.
Tried various restarts, installing various plugins, updates, even updated windows to no avail.
Does anyone else have other thoughts/fixes?

I tried Rider but just get other problems.

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