Visual Studio IDE 64-Bit support
Applies to: 
Visual Studio 
Visual Studio for Mac
Note
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Visual Studio enables you to set up your applications to target different platforms, including 64-bit platforms. For more information on 64-bit platform support in Visual Studio, see 64-bit applications.
Note
Visual Studio 2022 on Windows is now a 64-bit application. For more information, see the Visual Studio 2022 vision blog post.
Deploy a 64-bit application
Deploy prerequisites for 64-bit applications lists the redistributables you can use as prerequisites for the installation of a 64-bit application.
Configure projects as 64-bit applications
How to: Configure projects to target platforms discusses configuring projects to be built as 64-bit applications.