diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 934ff0844f..8fa369b0e0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ different versioning scheme, following the Haskell community's
 * Fixed ambiguous call to `maybe::operator==` that breaks GCC 9
   build. ([Pull request
   #975](https://github.com/microsoft/bond/pull/975))
+* Fixed MSVC warning C4296: "'<': expression is always false" in protocol.h.
+  ([Issue
+  #981](https://github.com/microsoft/bond/issues/981))
 
 ## 8.1.0: 2019-03-27 ##
 
diff --git a/cpp/inc/bond/core/protocol.h b/cpp/inc/bond/core/protocol.h
index 0a85e64ac8..d605f8dbdb 100644
--- a/cpp/inc/bond/core/protocol.h
+++ b/cpp/inc/bond/core/protocol.h
@@ -194,11 +194,20 @@ namespace detail
 {
 #if !defined(_MSC_VER) || _MSC_VER >= 1900
 
+#ifdef _MSC_VER
+#pragma warning(push)
+#pragma warning(disable: 4296) // C4296: '<' : expression is always false
+#endif // _MSC_VER
+
     // Avoid std::max due to a bug in Visual C++ 2017.
     template <std::size_t V0, std::size_t V1>
     struct max_of
         : std::integral_constant<std::size_t, (V0 < V1 ? V1 : V0)> {};
 
+#ifdef _MSC_VER
+#pragma warning(pop)
+#endif // _MSC_VER
+
     template <typename List> struct
     max_size;