The Visual Studio project files can now be created automatically from the GCC files using the create_project tool inside the /devtools/create_project folder. To create the default project files, build create_project.exe, copy it inside this folder and run the create_msvc.bat file for a default build. You can run create_project.exe with no parameters to check the possible command-line options. To enable debug visualization for common types in Visual Studio 2012 and 2013, run /devtools/create_project/scripts/install_natvis.bat.