10 files changed, 1142 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/vsprojects/.gitignore b/vsprojects/.gitignore
index dc63b1b31b..d69021ef58 100644
--- a/vsprojects/.gitignore
+++ b/vsprojects/.gitignore
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Release
 *.suo
 *.user
 test_bin
-grpc.opensdf
-grpc.sdf
+*.opensdf
+*.sdf
 third_party/*.user
 /packages
diff --git a/vsprojects/README.md b/vsprojects/README.md
index 355ef75724..14178daaa7 100644
--- a/vsprojects/README.md
+++ b/vsprojects/README.md
@@ -31,4 +31,13 @@ Also, you can `make.bat` directly to build and run gRPC tests.
 ```
 > REM Run from this directory.
 > make.bat alarm_test
-```
-\ No newline at end of file
+```
+
+# 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.
+
+1. Open solution `third_party\protobuf\vsprojects\protobuf.sln`
+2. Accept the conversion to newer Visual Studio version and ignore errors about gtest.
+3. Build libprotoc in Release mode.
+4. 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`, ...)
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index 0000000000..d2669b4401
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