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Note, from the Microsoft version documentation: "Starting with Visual Studio 2026, MSVC versioning is decoupled from Visual Studio versioning."
| Release | VS | MSVC | Toolset | CMake Generator | _MSC_VER |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Studio 2026 | 18 | 14.50+ | v145 | Visual Studio 18 2026 |
1950-1959 |
| Visual Studio 2022 | 17 | 14.30-14.44 | v143 | Visual Studio 17 2022 |
1930-1944 |
| Visual Studio 2019 | 16 | 14.20-14.29 | v142 | Visual Studio 16 2019 |
1920-1929 |
| Visual Studio 2017 | 15 | 14.10-14.16 | v141 | Visual Studio 15 2017 |
1910-1919 |
| Visual Studio 2015 | 14 | 14.0 | v140 | Visual Studio 14 2015 |
1900 |
| Visual Studio 2013 | 12 | 12.0 | v120 | Visual Studio 12 2013 |
1800 |
| Visual Studio 2012 | 11 | 11.0 | v110 | Visual Studio 11 2012 |
1700 |
| Visual Studio 2010 | 10 | 10.0 | v100 | Visual Studio 10 2010 |
1600 |
| Visual Studio 2008 | 9 | 9.0 | v90 | Visual Studio 9 2008 |
1500 |
| Visual Studio 2005 | 8 | 8.0 | v80 | Visual Studio 8 2005 |
1400 |
| Visual Studio .NET 2003 | 7.1 | 7.1 | - | Visual Studio 7 .NET 2003 |
1310 |
| Visual Studio .NET 2002 | 7 | 7.0 | - | Visual Studio 7 |
1300 |
| Visual Studio 6.0 | 6 | 6.0 | - | Visual Studio 6 |
1200 |
| Visual Studio 97 | 5 | - | - | 1100 |
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