π 2011-Jan-25 ⬩ βοΈ Ashwin Nanjappa ⬩ π·οΈ cuda, syntax highlighting, visual studio ⬩ π Archive
It is painful to work with CUDA source files (*.cu
) in Visual Studio without syntax highlighting. Nvidia provides a usertype.dat
file that can be used for this purpose. Here is how:
Install the GPU Computing SDK. Note that this is not the same as the CUDA Toolkit, which is a prerequisite for the SDK. The SDK installs into the %NVSDKCOMPUTE_ROOT%
directory. On Windows 7, typically this is C:\ProgramData\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA GPU Computing SDK 3.2
Go to theΒ %NVSDKCOMPUTE_ROOT%\C\doc\syntax_highlighting\visual_studio_8
directory. Use the usertype.dat
file that is here and follow the instructions in the Readme.txt
file that is here.
Restart Visual Studio.
Tried with: CUDA 3.2