diff --git a/build_handwritten.yaml b/build_handwritten.yaml
index 865245e9d6b..4dd9469a55c 100644
--- a/build_handwritten.yaml
+++ b/build_handwritten.yaml
@@ -48,21 +48,6 @@ targets:
   - tools/codegen/core/gen_percent_encoding_tables.cc
   deps: []
   uses_polling: false
-vspackages:
-- linkage: static
-  name: grpc.dependencies.zlib
-  props: false
-  redist: true
-  version: 1.2.8.10
-- linkage: static
-  name: grpc.dependencies.openssl
-  props: true
-  redist: true
-  version: 1.0.204.1
-- name: gtest
-  props: false
-  redist: false
-  version: 1.7.0.1
 configs:
   asan:
     CC: clang
diff --git a/tools/buildgen/plugins/generate_vsprojects.py b/tools/buildgen/plugins/generate_vsprojects.py
deleted file mode 100755
index 6fbad5e1652..00000000000
--- a/tools/buildgen/plugins/generate_vsprojects.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,85 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2015 gRPC authors.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-"""Buildgen vsprojects plugin.
-
-This parses the list of libraries, and generates globals "vsprojects"
-and "vsproject_dict", to be used by the visual studio generators.
-
-"""
-
-import hashlib
-import re
-
-
-def mako_plugin(dictionary):
-    """The exported plugin code for generate_vsprojeccts
-
-  We want to help the work of the visual studio generators.
-
-  """
-
-    libs = dictionary.get('libs', [])
-    targets = dictionary.get('targets', [])
-
-    for lib in libs:
-        lib['is_library'] = True
-    for target in targets:
-        target['is_library'] = False
-
-    projects = []
-    projects.extend(libs)
-    projects.extend(targets)
-    for target in projects:
-        if 'build' in target and target['build'] == 'test':
-            default_test_dir = 'test'
-        else:
-            default_test_dir = '.'
-        if 'vs_config_type' not in target:
-            if 'build' in target and target['build'] == 'test':
-                target['vs_config_type'] = 'Application'
-            else:
-                target['vs_config_type'] = 'StaticLibrary'
-        if 'vs_packages' not in target:
-            target['vs_packages'] = []
-        if 'vs_props' not in target:
-            target['vs_props'] = []
-        target['vs_proj_dir'] = target.get('vs_proj_dir', default_test_dir)
-        if target.get('vs_project_guid',
-                      None) is None and 'windows' in target.get(
-                          'platforms', ['windows']):
-            name = target['name']
-            guid = re.sub('(........)(....)(....)(....)(.*)',
-                          r'{\1-\2-\3-\4-\5}',
-                          hashlib.md5(name.encode('utf-8')).hexdigest())
-            target['vs_project_guid'] = guid.upper()
-    # Exclude projects without a visual project guid, such as the tests.
-    projects = [
-        project for project in projects if project.get('vs_project_guid', None)
-    ]
-
-    projects = [
-        project for project in projects
-        if project['language'] != 'c++' or project['build'] == 'all' or
-        project['build'] == 'protoc' or (project['language'] == 'c++' and (
-            project['build'] == 'test' or project['build'] == 'private'))
-    ]
-
-    project_dict = dict([(p['name'], p) for p in projects])
-
-    packages = dictionary.get('vspackages', [])
-    packages_dict = dict([(p['name'], p) for p in packages])
-
-    dictionary['vsprojects'] = projects
-    dictionary['vsproject_dict'] = project_dict
-    dictionary['vspackages_dict'] = packages_dict