Visual Studio Development Environment 64-Bit Support

See How to: Configure Projects to Target Platforms for information on features in the Visual Studio development environment that help you create 64-bit applications.

Installing 64-bit features

For information on installing 64-bit Visual Studio features, see Installing Visual Studio 64-bit Components.

The Visual Studio readme file will contain any information related to installing Visual Studio on a machine with a 64-bit Windows operating system.

Deploying a 64-bit application

The following topics discuss deploying 64-bit applications.

Configuring projects as 64-bit applications

The following topics discuss configuring projects to be built to 64-bit applications.

Debugging a 64-bit application

Edit and Continue does not work when Visual Studio 2005 is running on a 64-bit Windows operating system. The following topics discuss debugging 64-bit applications.

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Concepts

64-bit Applications