Installing Tensorflow with CUDA, cuDNN and GPU support on Windows 10

Visual studio is required for the installation of Nvidia CUDA Toolkit (this prerequisite is referred to here). If you attempt to download and install CUDA Toolkit for Windows without having first installed Visual Studio, you get the message shown in Figure 1. At the time of writing, the most recent version of Visual Studio (which is free) is the Visual Studio Express Community Version 2017, shown in Fig 2. You can get previous versions of Visual Studio for free by joining "Visual Studio Dev Essentials" and then searching for the version of Visual Studio you want. Once you have downloaded Visual Studio Express, its installation is straightforward.