Using Visual Studio 2005 (32 bit) on a 64-bit Windows 7 machine

Question

I need to use Visual Studio 2005 (C ++) on my new laptop - Sony Vaio with Windows 7 64-bit ..

I do not need to develop for a 64-bit environment, my work is 32-bit, so how can I be sure that I can still develop / debug / test a 32-bit target environment using VS2005 on a 64-bit machine ... .

Which is the best option:

1) Just install VS2005 on Windows 7 64bit and continue .. (suspicious problems with the 64-bit version of libs ..?)

2) Dual boot laptop with 32-bit Windows XP.

3) Run in it some kind of virtual machine with Windows XP ... (I don’t have a VM yet, but I would look at it)

thank

Answer 1

Answer: 1) you just need to make sure that you are targeting the processor at 32 bits. You can develop for a 32-bit machine on a 64-bit machine and vice versa.

After some glance, it looks like you should have updated service packs. Read http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa948853.aspx if you want to know more.

Answer 2

Visual Studio includes both 32-bit and 64-bit compilers and tools.

You can install VS on Windows 7 x64 and develop 32-bit applications without problems.
(Just don't do something crazy like hard coding "C:\\Program File (x86)\\")

Answer 3

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