Visual Studio Solution Configurations

Development Pipeline & Plugins
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I was hoping that someone could help me understand the difference between “Development” and 'Development Editor" in the Visual Studio Solution Configurations. There is a partial explanation here:

but it doesn’t explain the difference between the two that I’m interested in. Thanks.

Dijon

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The one builds and launches the game standalone, the other builds and launches the UnrealEditor

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Will code changes that I make in both of these show up in the editor?

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I have not tried that, but, no, I would not expect it. The editor configuration creates a dll, that is loaded by the editor, the standalone configuration creates a exe.

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OK, thanks. If you want to submit that as an answer, I will accept it. Thanks again for your help.

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Development

  • Builds a standalone executable (exe) of the game
  • Clicking the debug button or hitting F5 starts the game stand alone
  • When this is beeing compiled, the Editor will not notice the changes (no hot-reload)

DevelopmentEditor

  • Builds a dll of the game, that can be loaded by the UnrealEditor
  • Clicking the debug butto or hitting F5 starts the UnrealEditor with the game project
  • When this is beeing compiled, the Editor will hot-reload the new dll (most of the time this works)
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Thanks very much for your help.