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On Visual Studio (VS) Code, coding on C#. I'm trying to generate assets to build and debug and I'm getting the following error message: Unable to generate assets to build and debug. OmniSharp server is not running.

I'm running:

• .NET version 3.1.301
• Windows 8.1
• Visual Studio Code 1.46.1 (user setup)
• Powershell 5.1

So far I've tried unistalling VS code and the C# extention, I updated the omnisharp.path to latest at settings.json and updated the powershell version.

The code I'm trying to generate the assets for build and debug does run, so I'm uncertain where else I should look for the source of the problem.

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Ended up discovering the issue. I needed to add a PATH variable to C:\Windows\System32 in the System Variables. Now it works as intended.

Adding the variable depends on your Windows version. You should be able to find guides on adding Paths to your Environment Variables. Here's Microsoft's guide.

As for which path variable you need to add it'll look something like: C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v.1.0