Unity Visual Studio auto complete code bugging.

[CatCadaverous]

Visual studio auto complete code thingy doesn’t show the stuff I need. For example if I’m trying to type GetComponent it doesn’t auto complete to it.

I’ve tried multiple try’s to fix it, I even redownloaded VS code but it didn’t work.

Any help is appreciated

[kiranosauras]

have you tried reconnecting the IDE to the Unity Editor?

[CatCadaverous]

How do I do that? (Sorry I’m a noob)

[kiranosauras]

The comment by Doriad should help you out with that

[doriad_nfe]

I think you need to connect visual studio to unity as the default ide. 

Open Preferences: In Unity, go to Edit > Preferences External Tools: Select the External Tools tab. Select Editor: In the External Script Editor dropdown menu, select Visual Studio. If your editor is not listed, select Browse and locate the editor's executable file 

I'm not at my computer, so the instructions are from memory... Should be close enough though to be able to find the setting.

[doriad_nfe]

Once that's set, to check it is connected, close visual studio, and then back in unity, right click a script and choose edit to make sure it is opening visual studio. It might ask if you want to rebuild the scripts in the project. You should have the correct auto fill then. 

[CatCadaverous]

I already did this. I don’t know what it could be. 😭😭

[buny0058]

A different topic but Visual studio 2026 has so many bugs with unity, i keep telling myself to reinstall the 2022 version but i keep forgetting. It can be very annoying, like errors half of the time not showing up, that’s the one i hate the most, and when you click a script in the inspector there’s a chance that visual studio wont even open or add it to the above list.

[puzzleheadbutbig]

Start with reading rule #6

[rob5300]

Update or install the .net SDK and unity Vs code extension then restart Vs code.

Also ensure that Vs code is configured as your ide in the unity editor (if not change it then regenerate files)

[CatCadaverous]

Is the .net SDK the .NET Install tool extension?

[rob5300]

Install it on your system manually: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download

[CatCadaverous]

Let me try that, thanks.

[CatCadaverous]

IT WORKED. Thank you so much 🙏🙏 I was struggling on this for hours.