I just downloaded Visual Studio 2019 and the Game Development with C++ workload, which says it includes tools to work with Cocos. The workload downloaded Cocos Creator, but I don’t know how to start using Visual Studio 2019 with Cocos Creator. All the posts I find about are either outdated, or they only talk about VS Code, not VS 2019. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thank you so much!
I am not sure about this. Which version of Cocos Creator did VS end up downloading?
Cocos Creator v1.5.2
This version is really old. I know the team is working with Microsoft to change the version to a newer one. Please don’t use 1.5.2. Please download 2.4.2 from our downloads.
I’m not 100% positive about the integration into Visual Studio. We can ask @jare to help us understand how to do this.
We do have 2 documents, but they do mention VS Code:
https://docs.cocos.com/creator/manual/en/getting-started/coding-setup.html?h=visual%20studio
https://docs.cocos.com/creator/manual/en/publish/setup-native-development.html?h=visual%20studio
I also fell for this. Cocos is definitely not integrated into Visual Studio. Cocos documentation recommends using VS Code for script editing. It is still not integrated. However, VS Code is a very good code editor. Download version 2.4.2 and follow the documentation. The Cocos team is very good at giving feedback for absolutely all questions. You will be happy here.