diff --git a/include/boost/python/suite/indexing/iterator_traits.hpp b/include/boost/python/suite/indexing/iterator_traits.hpp
index 1b2a493a..142da4f9 100755
--- a/include/boost/python/suite/indexing/iterator_traits.hpp
+++ b/include/boost/python/suite/indexing/iterator_traits.hpp
@@ -29,11 +29,23 @@
 #include <boost/type_traits.hpp>
 
 namespace boost { namespace python { namespace indexing {
+#if !BOOST_MSVC
   enum IndexStyle {
     index_style_none         // No random access (iteration only)
     , index_style_nonlinear  // Random access by key (no slicing)
     , index_style_linear     // Random access by integer index (allows slicing)
   };
+#else
+  // MSVC seems to have problems with static member variable constants
+  // of enumerated types, where it doesn't believe that an expression
+  // like (traits::index_style == index_style_linear) is a
+  // compile-time constant. However, the problem doesn't exist for
+  // int.
+  typedef int IndexStyle;
+  IndexStyle const index_style_none = 0;
+  IndexStyle const index_style_nonlinear = 1;
+  IndexStyle const index_style_linear = 2;
+#endif
 
   //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
   // Indexing traits for containers based on iterator pairs