Visual Studio 64 bit

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Is there any 64 bit Visual Studio at all  Why not

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No  but the 32-bit version runs just fine on 64-bit Windows

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For numerous reasons  No  Why is explained in this MSDN post   First  from a performance perspective the pointers get larger  so data structures get larger  and the processor cache stays the same size  That basically results in a raw speed hit  your mileage may vary    So you start in a hole and you have to dig yourself out of that hole by using the extra memory above 4G to your advantage   In Visual Studio this can happen in some large solutions but I think a preferable thing to do is to just use less memory in the first place   Many of VS   s algorithms are amenable to this   Here   s an old article that discusses the performance issues at some length  https   docs microsoft com archive blogs joshwil should-i-choose-to-take-advantage-of-64-bit Secondly  from a cost perspective  probably the shortest path to porting Visual Studio to 64 bit is to port most of it to managed code incrementally and then port the rest   The cost of a full port of that much native code is going to be quite high and of course all known extensions would break and we   d basically have to create a 64 bit ecosystem pretty much like you do for drivers   Ouch

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No  There is no 64-bit version of Visual Studio   How to know it is not 64-bit   Once you download Visual Studio and click the install button  you will see that the initialization folder it selects automatically is C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 14 0  As per my understanding  all 64-bit programs applications goes to C  Program Files and all 32-bit applications goes to C  Program Files  x86  from Windows 7 onwards

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no  but it runs fine on win64  and can create win64  EXEs

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Is there any 64 bit Visual Studio at all    Yes literally there is one called  Visual Studio  and is 64bit  but well   on Mac not on Windows     Why not    Decision making is electro-chemical reaction made in our brain and that have an activation point  Nerdest answer I can come up with  but follow   Same situation happened in history  Windows 64       So in order to answer this fully I want you to remember old days  Imagine reasons for  why not we see 64bit Windows  are there at the time  I think at the time for Windows64 they had exact same reasons others have enlisted here about  reasons why not 64bit VS on windows  were on  reasons why not 64bit Windows  too  Then why they did start development for Windows 64bit  Simple  If they didn t succeed in making 64bit Windows I bet M  would have been a history nowadays  If same reasons forcing M  making 64bit Windows starts to appear on need for 64Bit VS then I bet we will see 64bit VS  even though very same reasons everyone else here enlisted will stay same  In time the limitations of 32bit may hit VS as well  so most likely something like below start to happen    Visual Studio will drop 32bit support and become 64bit  Visual Studio Code will take it s place instead  Visual Studio will have similar functionality like WOW64 for old extensions which is I believe unlikely to happen    I put my bets on Visual Studio Code taking the place in time  I guess bifurcation point for it will be some CPU manufacturer X starts to compete x86 64 architecture taking its place on mainstream market for laptop and or workstation

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