Visual Studio 2015 Pro 32 bit or 64 bit
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Our company is currently using Visual Studio 2013 Pro 32 bit on Windows 7 Enterprise machines. At some point early next year we are moving to Windows 10. We are going to upgrade to VS 2015 Pro. We compile some of our projects with x86, some with x64, and some with Any CPU. Some of our developers that are in a different state are using 64 bit Visual Studio. So I think we should get the 32 bit Visual Studio 2015 since that is what we are using now and everything works great. But some people are suggesting that we move to 64 bit. Does it really make a difference one way or another? Is there any reason that we should stick with 32 bit or move to 64 bit? Most of our programming is Winforms applications an we interact with SQL Server, Microsoft Access, and Excel. Some of our users use 32 bit Office and others use 64 bit Office Can 64 bit Visual Studio still compile 32 bit applications? Looking forward to your feedback. David
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Our company is currently using Visual Studio 2013 Pro 32 bit on Windows 7 Enterprise machines. At some point early next year we are moving to Windows 10. We are going to upgrade to VS 2015 Pro. We compile some of our projects with x86, some with x64, and some with Any CPU. Some of our developers that are in a different state are using 64 bit Visual Studio. So I think we should get the 32 bit Visual Studio 2015 since that is what we are using now and everything works great. But some people are suggesting that we move to 64 bit. Does it really make a difference one way or another? Is there any reason that we should stick with 32 bit or move to 64 bit? Most of our programming is Winforms applications an we interact with SQL Server, Microsoft Access, and Excel. Some of our users use 32 bit Office and others use 64 bit Office Can 64 bit Visual Studio still compile 32 bit applications? Looking forward to your feedback. David
There's no such thing as a 64-bit version of Visual Studio. People have been asking Microsoft to make one for at least six years, but they haven't done so yet.
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Our company is currently using Visual Studio 2013 Pro 32 bit on Windows 7 Enterprise machines. At some point early next year we are moving to Windows 10. We are going to upgrade to VS 2015 Pro. We compile some of our projects with x86, some with x64, and some with Any CPU. Some of our developers that are in a different state are using 64 bit Visual Studio. So I think we should get the 32 bit Visual Studio 2015 since that is what we are using now and everything works great. But some people are suggesting that we move to 64 bit. Does it really make a difference one way or another? Is there any reason that we should stick with 32 bit or move to 64 bit? Most of our programming is Winforms applications an we interact with SQL Server, Microsoft Access, and Excel. Some of our users use 32 bit Office and others use 64 bit Office Can 64 bit Visual Studio still compile 32 bit applications? Looking forward to your feedback. David
There are no separate architecture versions of Visual Studio. There's just one ardchitecture and it's still 32-bit. Yes, it can still build 64-bit apps. The architecture of Visual Studio has no bearing on the type or architecture of applications it can build.
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There are no separate architecture versions of Visual Studio. There's just one ardchitecture and it's still 32-bit. Yes, it can still build 64-bit apps. The architecture of Visual Studio has no bearing on the type or architecture of applications it can build.
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Dave KreskowiakThanks to you both. I guess that makes our decision easier. I downloaded an ISO from our MSDN Subscriber website. The name of the ISO was mu_visual_studio_2015_update_3_x86_x64_dvd_8923065.iso I haven't attempted to install it yet. But the name of the file makes it look like you could install as x86 or x64. But maybe what it really means is that it will install to an x86 or x64 machine.
