CUDA 4.2.props and target file is missing (Visual Studio 2010)

Question

I'm trying to get the CUDA 4.2 toolkit to work with Visual Studio 2010 (c++ express edition). I'm running this on Microsoft Windows 64 bit. I have the SDK, the toolkit and Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 2.2 currently installed, as well as Visual Studio 2010 (c++ express edition). I have CUDA fully installed and working properly in itself, yet when I try to open a source project with Visual Studio 2010, I get this error:

Unable to read the project file "bandwidthTest_vs2010.vcxproj". C:\ProgramData\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA GPU Computing SDK 4.2\ C\src\bandwidthTest\bandwidthTest_vs2010.vcxproj(65,5): The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp \v4.0\BuildCustomization\CUDA 4.2.props" was not found. Confirm that the path in the Import declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk.

I have tried uninstalling the toolkit and the SDK and reinstalling, and this did not fix the issue. I think if someone could simply give me the files, then it might work. However, I am still worried as to why I am having this issue in the first place. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

It's probably solved, but for the ones who land here:

if you encounter this, most probably CUDA toolkit did not install properly. Simply copy the files from

C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v5.0\extras\visual_studio_integration\MSBuildExtensions 

to

C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\BuildCustomizations.