cmake – Visual Studio Doesn’t Create Solution

I keep running into this weird problem with Visual Studio. On numerous occasions I’ve made projects, but they don’t make a Solution file.

In here I made a simple example where I make an Empty Project – it creates a solution file and I make a CMake Project and it doesn’t. Now nowhere in the Create New Project do I deselect any “create solution file” option, but I don’t understand why it doesn’t generate one. And this applies to other projects I’ve made over time.

As soon as I create the project to include anything, or open a folder as a project, it doesn’t generate any solution file.

And this applies to multiple version, I remember having this confusion when using VS 2019, and even now with 2022.

The problem is that I need the solution file (or more precisely, to modify its properties) for some functionality / setup that I need.

Is there a way to create or find this solution file if it’s unavailable when I make or open a project?

When I switch views I get this: