diff --git a/Tests/CudaOnly/WithDefs/CMakeLists.txt b/Tests/CudaOnly/WithDefs/CMakeLists.txt
index 2646d29a3f63802756cf4840b4b0c502d70f3bce..38f2a44a3464de6ec4c03a7912e975e9b7570a8c 100644
--- a/Tests/CudaOnly/WithDefs/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Tests/CudaOnly/WithDefs/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -16,8 +16,15 @@ set(release_compile_defs DEFREL)
 #build a executable that needs to be passed a complex define through add_defintions
 #this verifies we can pass things such as '_','(' to nvcc
 add_definitions("-DPACKED_DEFINE=__attribute__((packed))")
-set_source_files_properties(main.notcu PROPERTIES LANGUAGE CUDA)
-add_executable(CudaOnlyWithDefs main.notcu)
+
+if(CMAKE_GENERATOR MATCHES "Visual Studio")
+  # CUDA MSBuild rules do not pass '-x cu' to nvcc
+  set(main main_for_vs.cu)
+else()
+  set(main main.notcu)
+  set_source_files_properties(main.notcu PROPERTIES LANGUAGE CUDA)
+endif()
+add_executable(CudaOnlyWithDefs ${main})
 
 target_compile_options(CudaOnlyWithDefs
   PRIVATE
diff --git a/Tests/CudaOnly/WithDefs/main_for_vs.cu b/Tests/CudaOnly/WithDefs/main_for_vs.cu
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..56078e7af2a91d634a26d5d003340ba19ea1c639
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/CudaOnly/WithDefs/main_for_vs.cu
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+#include "main.notcu"