Visual Studio Tools for Unreal Engine

Visual Studio Tools for Unreal Engine makes it easier to write and debug C++ code for Unreal Engine from within Visual Studio, with features such as:

• Stream Unreal Engine logs
• View Blueprint references and assets
• Expand Unreal Engine macros^*
• Unreal Engine name convention checker
• Intellisense tuned for Unreal Engine projects^*
• Add Unreal Engine classes inside Visual Studio
• See Unreal header tool warnings in Visual Studio
• Visual Studio performance has been tuned for large projects^*
• Be more productive with HLSL files via syntax highlighting and statement completion

^* These features are available in Visual Studio 17.7 or later without installing Visual Studio Tools for Unreal Engine.

Supported Visual Studio versions

Visual Studio Tools for Unreal Engine is available for free and supports:

• Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.7 or later.

We recommend downloading and using the latest version of Visual Studio.

Supported Unreal Engine versions

Unreal Engine version 4.27 and 5.0 or later.

See also

Install Visual Studio Tools For Unreal Engine
Quickstart: Visual Studio Tools for Unreal Engine
Overview of Unreal Engine
Get started with Unreal Engine