The Visual Studio IDE has been 32bit since day one. This has been a huge PIA for a small number of people. A 64bit IDE is the BFD, not the compiler, and I'm ecstatic that they are finally fixing this.
If you published a.NET DLL that provides a Form, built with native code via CLI, then you absolutely HAD TO ship a 32bit version so that the 32bit IDE could load your DLL into the Forms Designer so others could use it. Even if none of your customers every wanted to build a 32bit version.
Now we can finally throw 32bit into the trash bin.
Important part is 64bit IDE (Score:2)
The Visual Studio IDE has been 32bit since day one. This has been a huge PIA for a small number of people. A 64bit IDE is the BFD, not the compiler, and I'm ecstatic that they are finally fixing this.
If you published a .NET DLL that provides a Form, built with native code via CLI, then you absolutely HAD TO ship a 32bit version so that the 32bit IDE could load your DLL into the Forms Designer so others could use it. Even if none of your customers every wanted to build a 32bit version.
Now we can finally throw 32bit into the trash bin.