VS 2015 and VS 2017, How To Select?

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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I have both Visual Studio 2015 and 2017 installed. I want Unreal Engine 4.18 to use Visual Studio 2017, but it keeps loading 2015. I need 2015 installed for other reasons. Any way to force Unreal to load VS2017?

I’m also seeing strange issues when it loads 2015. For example, if I create a C++ Pawn Class, the “Content” list does not display the class nor does it have any reference to the class. But it still opens the class in VS2015. It’s strange.

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Go to Edit -> Editor Preferences -> General -> Source Code -> Source Code Editor

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If need be, you can also manually create a /YourGame/Config/DefaultEditorSettings.ini file and add the following:



[/Script/SourceCodeAccess.SourceCodeAccessSettings]
PreferredAccessor=VisualStudio2017