Unreal Engine opening developer command prompt instead of Visual Studio 2019

Development Programming & Scripting
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Whenever I open a new c++ project for Unreal Engine, the Developer command prompt for VS 2019 opens. When i go into the file menu → Open Visual studio 2019, it opens the Dev. command prompt again. I need help fixing this.

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Did you ever figure out what the issue was?

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Getting this in 4.25

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Can you try to open it from the editor and post editor’s output log?

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I am in need of help with this too. Does anyone have a solution to this? Clicking on “open visual studio 2019” opens the black command prompt with the message contents:

** Visual Studio 2019 Developer Command Prompt v16.6.5
** Copyright (c) 2020 Microsoft Corporation

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools>

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Same issue with UE 4.24.3 and VS Community 2017

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Having the same issue with UE 4.24.3 and VS Community 2017.

Workaround is the open it manually:

  1. Open VS
  2. File → Open → Project/Solution
  3. In prompt select file: [Your project directory]/[Your project name].sln
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This happens to me too with UE 5.5.4 and VS 2022. Is there a fix for this?

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For Unreal Engine? Nah, you will be better off with another engine.
Have you looked into Godot, Source 2 or unity? (those engines work).

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In solution explorer, under Games folder, right click your project name, choose “Set as startup project”. Solved.