Visual Studio editor saying 'Macro in Skipped Region'

Development Pipeline & Plugins
, , , ,
1

Visual Studio is saying macro in skipped region after a recent update. It didn’t show this message before the update.

240285-screenshot-12.png

The code compiles fine but how to remove this error message?

2

I was having the same issue. The weird part is that it is hard to find official references to this “Macro in Skipped Region”. There are a lot of people complaining about this, links for reference:

The best solution comes from the later where it suggests disabling this warning by disabling IntelliSense as a whole. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a way to disable only this warning but I can live with it until a fix comes out.

In order to fully disable IntelliSense:

  • Tools → Options → Text Editor → C/C++ → Advanced → Disable IntelliSense

3

SO ANNOYING. NEED ANSWERS NOW!

4

I recommend to vote on visualcommunity so the VS Devs priorities that. Using hint files or deactivating Intellisense don’t seem viable solutions to me.

5

A Workaround

Bit of a hacky workaround, but try this for now:

  1. Add a cpp.hint to your root folder

  2. Add the missing defines in here, for example, mine is:

    #define UCLASS()

    #define GENERATED_BODY()

    #define UFUNCTION()

  3. Restart visual studio and give it a few seconds. This should get rid of your green squiggles.

  4. List item

Microsoft’s Hint File Docs

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd997977.aspx

6

This is a nice workaround. Thank you for sharing.

But: I’d just leave the whole thing alone. I mean, it is not an error, it is an information from the IDE. Keep it in your sights but do NOT change your code because of IntelliSense information.

7

It’s incorrect information from the IDE (as acknowledged by Microsoft). I even added my cpp.hint file to the visual studio installation directory; so it doesn’t even have to live in your project root. It’s simply an editor configuration… and it’s not modifying any code whatsoever.