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How to make intellisense popups exclude #include folders from symbol popups?

I regularly code in CUDA on Windows using Visual Studio.

Whilst coding it would be nice for the intellisense popup to show me relevant popups.
But 90% of what it shows me is useless WINAPI stuff, which has no relevance whatsoever in CUDA code, even on the __host__ (that runs in console mode).

For example:

For context, I never #include any WinAPI stuff, only

#include <cuda.h>
#include <cuda/atomics>

But still I get this useless WINAPI stuff.

Is there a way to exclude all the WinAPI include folders from the symbol lookup, so that intellisense does not show them in the completion suggestions?
Or alternatively, can I limit the suggestions to just the CUDA include folders and my own code?

Update
I disable Windows.h only for intellisense by altering this file like so:

#ifndef __INTELLISENSE__
//rest of Windows.h
#endif /* __INTELLISENSE__ */

After saving (needs admin privileges) and restarting VS 2022, I get:

enter image description here

Only my code and the CUDA API, much better...

Solution

  • can I limit the suggestions to just the CUDA include folders and my own code?

    I think yes. You can right-click on the project node in Solution Explorer and select Properties then customize #include paths for the current configuration and platform.

    Select the Include Directories line and click the dropdown on the right, choose <Edit>,click New Line. You can add your CUDA include folders to here. The default values for build macros are VC_IncludePath and $(WindowsSDK_IncludePath). enter image description here

    Is there a way to exclude all the WinAPI include folders from the symbol lookup

    Based on this old ticket, new version VS will include Win32 API intellisence automatically. I have an idea, if you backup and remove the windows.h file in the following folder,Win32 API should not be detected.

    C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.22621.0\um