diff --git a/Help/release/dev/vs-natvis.rst b/Help/release/dev/vs-natvis.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7cc9844cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Help/release/dev/vs-natvis.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+vs-natvis
+---------
+
+* :ref:`Visual Studio Generators` for VS 2010 and above learned to
+  place ``.natvis`` source files into VS project files properly.
diff --git a/Source/cmVisualStudio10TargetGenerator.cxx b/Source/cmVisualStudio10TargetGenerator.cxx
index f5bbf4d78..29459dbdf 100644
--- a/Source/cmVisualStudio10TargetGenerator.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmVisualStudio10TargetGenerator.cxx
@@ -1187,6 +1187,8 @@ void cmVisualStudio10TargetGenerator::WriteExtraSource(cmSourceFile const* sf)
     tool = "PRIResource";
   } else if (ext == "xml") {
     tool = "XML";
+  } else if (ext == "natvis") {
+    tool = "Natvis";
   }
 
   if (this->NsightTegra) {