VS2010 Professional x64 compiler for C#

Question

I can't find an options to install the c# x64 compiler. Does this exist for Visual Studio 2010 Professional?

Answer 1

There is no x64 specific version of Visual Studio...at least not as the current release.  You may want to take a look at this blog post:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ricom/archive/2009/06/10/visual-studio-why-is-there-no-64-bit-version.aspx

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Answer 2

I can't find an options to install the c# x64 compiler. Does this exist for Visual Studio 2010 Professional?

Do you mean a 64-bit version of Visual Studio (there isn't one), or do you mean a C# compiler that will produce programs that can run as 64-bits (that's built-in to the C# compiler already).

Answer 3

The x86 version has the capability of producing x64 software.  Through the use of the configuration manager, you can select the correct platform for you project.  You may want to read this article:

http://msmvps.com/blogs/p3net/pages/configurations-and-platforms-in-visual-studio.aspx

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