diff --git a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp
index 0f6c38fb83..e4a4797f61 100644
--- a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp
+++ b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp
@@ -2292,7 +2292,11 @@ void GuiApplication::commitData(QSessionManager & sm)
 	/// We are changing that to close all wiew one by one.
 	/// FIXME: verify if the default implementation is enough now.
 	#ifdef QT_NO_SESSIONMANAGER
-		#warning Qt is compiled without session manager
+		#ifndef _MSC_VER
+			#warning Qt is compiled without session manager
+		#else
+			#pragma message("warning: Qt is compiled without session manager")
+		#endif
 		(void) sm;
 	#else
 		if (sm.allowsInteraction() && !closeAllViews())
diff --git a/src/version.h b/src/version.h
index 83ce3e4b72..e8bfd2e7b3 100644
--- a/src/version.h
+++ b/src/version.h
@@ -34,9 +34,15 @@ extern char const * const lyx_version_info;
 #define LYX_FORMAT_TEX2LYX 428 // uwestoehr: rotated table cells
 
 #if LYX_FORMAT_TEX2LYX != LYX_FORMAT_LYX
+#ifndef _MSC_VER
 #warning "tex2lyx produces an out of date file format."
 #warning "Please update tex2lyx as soon as possible, since it depends implicitly"
 #warning "on the current file format in some places (this causes bugs like #7780)."
+#else
+#pragma message("warning: tex2lyx produces an out of date file format. " \
+	"Please update tex2lyx as soon as possible, since it depends implicitly " \
+	"on the current file format in some places (this causes bugs like #7780).")
+#endif
 #endif
 
 //} // namespace lyx