Intel® oneAPI integrates with third-party IDEs on
Windows* to provide a seamless GUI experience for software development.
Watch a video walkthrough of creating a project with
Intel® oneAPI Visual Studio Samples Browser.
Define the
SETVARS_CONFIG Environment Variable:
The
SETVARS_CONFIG environment variable is not automatically defined during installation, you must add it to your environment before starting Visual Studio using the following. This only needs to be set once.
- Open a command window.
- Set system variables for Visual Studio.
setx SETVARS_CONFIG " "
To run the
Matrix Multiplication sample project:
- Open Microsoft Visual Studio.
- For Visual Studio 2019 and 2022, a page may display showing recent projects. Click
Continue without code.
Note
In the next step, you will look for a menu named
Extensions >
Intel or
Intel. If you do not see either of these menu choices, then the plug-ins have not been installed. See
Troubleshooting to fix the plug-ins.
- From the top menu, select:
- Visual Studio 2019 and 2022:
Extensions > Intel > Browse Intel oneAPI Samples
The samples screen will open:

- On the left side, select
Get Started.
- On the right side, select
Matrix Mul.
- Click
OK.
- From the Solution Explorer, right click on
matrix_mul_mkl and select
Rebuild.
- From the top menu, select
Debug > Start Without Debugging. The debug results will appear:
