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Generates Visual Studio 10 (VS 2010) project files.
-It is possible to append a space followed by the platform name to
-create project files for a specific target platform. E.g.
-"Visual Studio 10 2010 Win64" will create project files for the
-x64 processor; "Visual Studio 10 2010 IA64" for Itanium.
+The :variable:`CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM` variable may be set
+to specify a target platform name.
+
+For compatibility with CMake versions prior to 3.1, one may specify
+a target platform name optionally at the end of this generator name:
+
+``Visual Studio 10 2010 Win64``
+ Specify target platform ``x64``.
+
+``Visual Studio 10 2010 IA64``
+ Specify target platform ``Itanium``.
For compatibility with CMake versions prior to 3.0, one may specify this
-generator using the name "Visual Studio 10" without the year component.
+generator using the name ``Visual Studio 10`` without the year component.