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Joan Venge
Joan Venge

Reputation: 331550

Does Visual Studio 2010 have a 64bit version?

I am really confused, I am trying to read about its new features but some pages in google come up with 64bit versions, but not in MS' official site.

To my knowledge MS decided to keep it 32bit for the time being for VS 2010. Is this the case?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 4200

Answers (4)

Hans Passant
Hans Passant

Reputation: 942438

Rico Mariani, dev boss for VS2010 has blogged about the reasoning behind not creating a 64-bit version (yet). Not an official opinion of course, just a some insight from somebody that was very closely involved. He left the team btw.

Upvotes: 6

Kevin LaBranche
Kevin LaBranche

Reputation: 21098

There is no 64 bit version BUT you can install it on 64 bit.

Here's why...

Upvotes: 4

nos
nos

Reputation: 229342

Yes, Visual Studio is a 32 bit application. Here's some more info, http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ricom/archive/2009/06/10/visual-studio-why-is-there-no-64-bit-version.aspx

Upvotes: 2

Darin Dimitrov
Darin Dimitrov

Reputation: 1039508

No, there's no 64 bit version of Visual Studio yet. The confusion probably comes from the fact that Visual Studio allows you to generate 64 bit binaries but the application itself is 32 bit.

Upvotes: 6

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