diff --git a/scripts/data_files/vs2013-app-template.vcxproj b/scripts/data_files/vs2017-app-template.vcxproj
similarity index 100%
rename from scripts/data_files/vs2013-app-template.vcxproj
rename to scripts/data_files/vs2017-app-template.vcxproj
diff --git a/scripts/data_files/vs2013-main-template.vcxproj b/scripts/data_files/vs2017-main-template.vcxproj
similarity index 100%
rename from scripts/data_files/vs2013-main-template.vcxproj
rename to scripts/data_files/vs2017-main-template.vcxproj
diff --git a/scripts/data_files/vs2013-sln-template.sln b/scripts/data_files/vs2017-sln-template.sln
similarity index 100%
rename from scripts/data_files/vs2013-sln-template.sln
rename to scripts/data_files/vs2017-sln-template.sln
diff --git a/scripts/generate_visualc_files.pl b/scripts/generate_visualc_files.pl
index 96ade2f..272337c 100755
--- a/scripts/generate_visualc_files.pl
+++ b/scripts/generate_visualc_files.pl
@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@
 use strict;
 use Digest::MD5 'md5_hex';
 
-my $vsx_dir = "visualc/VS2013";
+my $vsx_dir = "visualc/VS2017";
 my $vsx_ext = "vcxproj";
-my $vsx_app_tpl_file = "scripts/data_files/vs2013-app-template.$vsx_ext";
-my $vsx_main_tpl_file = "scripts/data_files/vs2013-main-template.$vsx_ext";
+my $vsx_app_tpl_file = "scripts/data_files/vs2017-app-template.$vsx_ext";
+my $vsx_main_tpl_file = "scripts/data_files/vs2017-main-template.$vsx_ext";
 my $vsx_main_file = "$vsx_dir/mbedTLS.$vsx_ext";
-my $vsx_sln_tpl_file = "scripts/data_files/vs2013-sln-template.sln";
+my $vsx_sln_tpl_file = "scripts/data_files/vs2017-sln-template.sln";
 my $vsx_sln_file = "$vsx_dir/mbedTLS.sln";
 
 my $programs_dir = 'programs';
diff --git a/scripts/windows_msbuild.bat b/scripts/windows_msbuild.bat
index ff2b9f2..2bc6a51 100644
--- a/scripts/windows_msbuild.bat
+++ b/scripts/windows_msbuild.bat
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 @rem vcvarsall.bat will silently change the directory to that directory.
 @rem Setting the VSCMD_START_DIR environment variable causes it to change
 @rem to that directory instead.
-set "VSCMD_START_DIR=%~dp0\..\visualc\VS2013"
+set "VSCMD_START_DIR=%~dp0\..\visualc\VS2017"
 
 "%vcvarsall%" x64 && ^
 msbuild /t:Rebuild /p:Configuration=%cfg%%retarget% /m mbedTLS.sln