Getting Intellisense working in Visual Studio

[rwill128]

Hi @chrxh, I am trying to do some more work on Alien today, and I noticed that I can't get Intellisense to work, nor can I actually define a proper Visual Studio "project", even though everything builds okay in Visual Studio if I just open the repo folder in the solution explorer.

Do you have any advice there or perhaps a .proj file that you are willing to share as an example?

Thanks,
Rick

[chrxh]

Hey,
CMake should create the VS solution file alien-project.sln . It contains all the projects (DLLs and EXE including tests). In my case it looks like this
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However when you want to add new files or remove existing one you should edit the CMakeLists.txt because the solution and associated project files are generated from them via CMake.

Visual Studio now supports CMake much better than in the past. Thus, as a second option, one can open the CMakeLists directly in VS instead of the solution file.

Best!