Enable syntax highlighting for CUDA 7.0 in Visual Studio 2013

Question

Direct Question: Is it possible to enable syntax highlighting for CUDA 7.0 in Visual Studio 2013, and if so, how does one do it?

Background: I tried to follow this guide, but can't find a usertype.dat file (does it still ship with this version?). I didn't find the file at the locations mentioned in 1, 2, 3.

Answer 1

Try The following Steps

To set syntax highlighting support for your Visual Studio CUDA Project, make the following steps:

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• Go to: Tools -> Options -> Project and Solutions -> VC++ Project Settings -> Extensions to Include -> add “.cu” (and “.cuh” if you like);

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• Go to: Project -> Properties -> Configuration Properties -> VC++ Directories -> Include Directories -> add $(CUDA_INC_PATH)

• Go to: Tools –> Options -> Text Editor -> File Extension -> add “cu” to Extension, select Microsoft Visual C++ as Editor and then OK

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• Copy usertype.dat from C:\ProgramData\NVIDIA Corporation\CUDA Samples\v5.0\doc\syntax_highlighting\visual_studio_8 to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE

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The first step will make Visual Studio 2010 know that cu should be dealt with in a similar way as cpp file.

The second step will enable right click on a CUDA header file and select Open Document.

The third step will enable standard keyword coloring on .cu files.

The fourth step will extend the coloring to CUDA keywords.