My set-up makes the relevant info accessible much quicker by opening the browser rather than asking VS to load it as another tab. With the 'General' sub-menu selected on the left, I changed the setting under 'Documentation' for 'Use external browser' from 'false' to 'true'. NB I had previously also gone into the 'Tools - Options' setting for 'Tools for Unity'. Īnd Hey Presto! I can select a command in VS, hit Ctrl +' and it goes straight to the relevant section in the online documentation. Nothing (ie no conflict) appeared in the box below marked 'Shortcut currently used by:', so. Then, with the cursor in the 'Press shortcut keys:' box.Ħ. I clicked under 'Use new shortcut in:' and. The default shortcut to access the Help was set as 'Ctrl + Alt + M, Ctrl + H (Global)', suggesting to me that on hitting of these, I would be whisked away to the online Unity API Help documentation shown in the tutorial.

NB: In case it's not obvious, you need to type 'unity' in the search bar beneath 'Show commands containing:' The dialogue box shown here is in the 'Tools' menu, under 'Options'. Yet, the screenshot above indeed shows how to check for it.

My new installation of VS (15.6.4) DID include the Help.UnityAPIReference command, which is reported as missing in the original query, and thus NOT showing in the topmost image above. NB A yellow flag above the VS menu bar suggested I update the software. Lesson 2 suggests that Ctrl + ' searches the online Unity documentation for whichever item of code is highlighted at the time. I've just started using Visual Studio (VS) in Unity, following the Roll a Ball tutorial. VS will know it is Unity project and enable VSTU.īTW, I cannot help if you are asking to change the default hotkey for showing reference.( sln file, you can open VS either via Unity or loading the. So if you see Unity Project Explorer under View menu, the. By default, they are disable with non-unity project. You can see when VS recognize Unity project is you can use Unity Project Explorer (and other VSTU tools) list in here. I am new to VS so I just guess the title of project is important(maybe something else).

The thing you may miss is let VS recognize this is unity project. If you find those commands on the picture, it means you do install VSTU. Note: This doesn't fix the missing command in the setting, but you can still use the default shortcut for API reference. I had the same issue as shown in the question and I just made it work!

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