Oh, I feel like the proverbial can of worms :-S Yes, VS2013 can be downloaded and installed, although it is by no means intuitive. Having a MS account is not a big deal for me, though. After some hours, it's now running on my laptop. I will try using VS2013 for the current 2.05 code, but updating to the latest compiler is usually a good policy. MS might decide to give up support on 2013; does anyone have some idea about this? I understand that there must be a lot of issues going on that I'm not aware of, so I don't want to push this too far or make too much of a stir If you think it's interesting, I'll keep on trying 2.05+VS2013 and latest+VS2017. Thanks a lot to everyone that has helped me out on this issue