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-# Pre-generated MS Visual Studio project & solution files
+# Pre-generated MS Visual Studio project & solution files: DELETED
 
-**DEPRECATED, please use cmake instead (it can generate Visual Studio projects for you). We will continue providing pre-generated VS projects for a while, but we will likely get rid of them entirely at some point.**
+**The pre-generated MS Visual Studio project & solution files are no longer available, please use cmake instead (it can generate Visual Studio projects for you).**
 
 **Pre-generated MS Visual Studio projects used to be the recommended way to build on Windows, but there were some limitations:**
 - **hard to build dependencies, expecially boringssl (deps usually support cmake quite well)**
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 - **.proto codegen is hard to support in Visual Studio directly (but we have a pretty decent support in cmake)**
 - **It's a LOT of generated files. We prefer not to have too much generated code in our github repo.**
 
-Versions 2013 and 2015 are both supported. You can use [their respective
-community
-editions](https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs.aspx).
-
-# Building
-We are using [NuGet](http://www.nuget.org) to pull zlib and openssl dependencies.
-If you don't have Visual Studio NuGet plugin installed, you'll need to
-download nuget.exe from the web and manually restore the NuGet packages.
-
-```
-> REM Run from this directory.
-> REM No need to do this if you have NuGet visual studio extension.
-> nuget restore grpc.sln
-```
-
-After that, you can build the solution using one of these options:
-  1. open `grpc.sln` with Visual Studio and hit "Build".
-  2. build from commandline using `msbuild grpc.sln /p:Configuration=Debug`
-
-# C/C++ Test Dependencies
-   * gtest isn't available as a git repo like the other dependencies.  download it and add it to `/third_party/gtest/` (the folder will end up with `/build-aux/`, `/cmake/`, `/codegear/`, etc. folders in it).  
-    * if using vs2013: open/import the gtest solution in `/msvc/`, and save over the first solution (you will have to change it from read-only).  change all projects to use `/MDd` (Property Pages - C/C++ - Code Generation - Runtime Library) and build. This is a "multithreaded debug" setting and it needs to match grpc.
-    * build all
-   * open protobuf solution in `/third_party/protobuf/vsprojects`
-    * if using vs2013: on import the gtest stuff will probably fail, I think the paths are interpreted wrong.  it's ok.
-    * tests and test_plugin will fail when built.  also ok
-    * build all
-   *  gflags is automatically imported as a git submodule but it needs to have CMake run on it to be ready for a specific platform
-    * download [CMake](http://www.cmake.org/) windows installer; install
-    * open visual studio developer command prompt (not sure if dev command prompt is necessary)
-    * run `cmake <path to gtest directory>`
-    * this will build a `.sln` and fill up the `/third_party/gflags/include/gflags/` directory with headers
-    * build all
-   * install [NuGet](http://www.nuget.org)
-    * nuget should automatically bring in built versions of zlib and openssl when building grpc.sln (the versions in `/third_party/` are not used).  If it doesn't work use `tools->nuget...->manage...`.  The packages are put in `/vsprojects/packages/`
-
-# Building protoc plugins
-For generating service stub code, gRPC relies on plugins for `protoc` (the protocol buffer compiler). The solution `grpc_protoc_plugins.sln` allows you to build
-Windows .exe binaries of gRPC protoc plugins.
-
-- Follow instructions in `third_party\protobuf\cmake\README.md` to create Visual Studio 2013 projects for protobuf.
-  ```
-  $ cd third_party/protobuf/cmake
-  $ mkdir build & cd build
-  $ mkdir solution & cd solution
-  $ cmake -G "Visual Studio 12 2013" -Dprotobuf_BUILD_TESTS=OFF ../..
-  ```
-
-- Open solution `third_party\protobuf\cmake\build\solution\protobuf.sln` and build it in Release mode. That will build libraries `libprotobuf.lib` and `libprotoc.lib` needed for the next step.
-
-- Open solution `vsprojects\grpc_protoc_plugins.sln` and build it in Release mode. As a result, you should obtain a set of gRPC protoc plugin binaries (`grpc_cpp_plugin.exe`, `grpc_csharp_plugin.exe`, ...)
+See [INSTALL.md](/INSTALL.md) for detailed instructions how to build using cmake on Windows.