# Old Visual Studio

**URL:** https://discourse.cmake.org/t/old-visual-studio/385
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** gen:vs
**Created:** [December 14, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/old-visual-studio/385 "2019-12-14T16:44:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![vvs31415](https://discourse.cmake.org/user_avatar/discourse.cmake.org/vvs31415/32/6055_2.png) [@vvs31415](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/vvs31415)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/old-visual-studio/385/1 "2019-12-14T16:44:39Z")

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When the old MSVC++ versions (2005,2008) will be dropped ?

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### Author: ![brad.king](https://discourse.cmake.org/user_avatar/discourse.cmake.org/brad.king/32/11_2.png) [@brad.king](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/brad.king)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/old-visual-studio/385/2 "2019-12-16T14:13:21Z")

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Support for VS 2005 was removed in CMake 3.12.

Support for VS 2008 will remain for a while.

In both cases one can still build C and C++ programs using the compilers from those versions through the NMake Makefiles or Ninja generators.