Building C++ solution in VIsual Studio 2022 Community adds a JSON schema folder to project

Question

Visual Studio 2022 Community version 17.4.2

Visual Studio recently updated and now whenever I build my solution a folder appears that contains a massive JSON Schema at [Solution Folder]/JSON/Schemas/Catalog/https%003A%002F%002Fgo.microsoft.com%002Ffwlink%002F%003Flinkid%003D835884 of 600 entries and over 4000 lines.

This is causing havoc with my version control. How do I prevent this file from being created?

Answer 1

Turns out it was a bug internal to Visual Studio.

The fix is live. Update to Visual Studio 2022 version 17.4.5 or later.