Supported Windows compilers in CUDA

Question

I am a complete novice CUDA programmer trying to get started, and I am encountering the issue mentioned here with version 5.5

"clean" error with CUDA 5.5 in Vi

Answer 1

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From the NVIDIA CUDA TOOLKIT V5.0 Release Notes, Section 5.1, Table 1

Supported Windows Compilers (32-bit and 64-bit)

Compiler          IDE
Visual C++ 10.0   Visual Studio 2010
Visual C++ 9.0    Visual Studio 2008

From the NVIDIA CUDA TOOLKIT V5.5 Release Notes, Table 2

Windows Compilers Supported in CUDA 5.5

Compiler          IDE
Visual C++ 11.0   Visual Studio 2012
Visual C++ 11.0   Visual Studio 2012 Express (32-bit)
Visual C++ 10.0   Visual Studio 2010
Visual C++ 9.0    Visual Studio 2008

From the NVIDIA CUDA GETTING STARTED GUIDE FOR MICROSOFT WINDOWS for CUDA 6.0

Windows Compiler Support in CUDA 6.0

Compiler          IDE
Visual C++ 11.0   Visual Studio 2012 Express
Visual C++ 10.0   Visual Studio 2010 
Visual C++ 9.0    Visual Studio 2008

In all the above releases, there is no support for Visual Studio 2010 Express.