This is a simple explanation on creating a Visual Studio Project for the lua scripts used in your project. The results of this should cause your scripts to be compiled (with a .o extension) and any errors will appear in the errors box in visual studio.  
Hope this helps
-- AA
Step 1:  Create the project.
Step 2:  Download the following files 
-  put them in your project directory  (or somewhere global if you prefer)
-  luaVS.bat is a simple wrapper for luac that outputs Visual Studio friendly errors
-  Lua.Rules is the rules file for handling .lua files
Step 3: Set up the project
-  Goto Project->Custom Build Rules
-  Click Find Existing
-  Find the Lua.Rules file
-  Make sure its checked, and hit ok.
Some other things:
A Microsoft demo on using lua with visual studio
[1]
Also LuaLangPack? [2] for getting some good highlighting for VS2005. See this CodePlex? page [3] for VS2008+ integration.
Comments: I've removed my old method for doing this. If its useful to someone, Check out Revision 6 of this page.
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