32bit and 64bit devellop

(I'm using Visual Studio 2008)

I want my new develloper pc to be Vista 64bit, but all my clients are so
far 32bit (XP), so my questions are:

1) Is it possible for me to tell VS2008 that the output should be 32bit?
That is devellop dotnet on a 64bit machine and output 32bit program?

2) When later this year, all my clients are updgraded to Vista 64bit,
can I then tell VS2008 easialy to change my solution from 32bit to 64bit?


Thanks!

M O J O

Re: 32bit and 64bit devellop

"M O J O" wrote in message
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> (I'm using Visual Studio 2008)
>
> I want my new develloper pc to be Vista 64bit, but all my clients are so
> far 32bit (XP), so my questions are:
>
> 1) Is it possible for me to tell VS2008 that the output should be 32bit?
> That is devellop dotnet on a 64bit machine and output 32bit program?
>
> 2) When later this year, all my clients are updgraded to Vista 64bit, can
> I then tell VS2008 easialy to change my solution from 32bit to 64bit?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> M O J O
>

As long as you are using managed code, you don't need to do anything
special. The numeric sizes in .NET are specified in that an Integer is 32
bits regardless of the machine. The framework will handle the differences
for you.

That said, you might want to get a 32-bit version of Vista and test with it
so your clients are comfortable with you developing on a 64 bit system.

Mike Ober.

Re: 32bit and 64bit devellop

Hi Mike,

Thank you for your answer!

M O J O

Michael D. Ober skrev:
> "M O J O" wrote in message
> news:uQIA97OLIHA.1184@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> (I'm using Visual Studio 2008)
>>
>> I want my new develloper pc to be Vista 64bit, but all my clients are
>> so far 32bit (XP), so my questions are:
>>
>> 1) Is it possible for me to tell VS2008 that the output should be
>> 32bit? That is devellop dotnet on a 64bit machine and output 32bit
>> program?
>>
>> 2) When later this year, all my clients are updgraded to Vista 64bit,
>> can I then tell VS2008 easialy to change my solution from 32bit to 64bit?
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> M O J O
>>
>
> As long as you are using managed code, you don't need to do anything
> special. The numeric sizes in .NET are specified in that an Integer is
> 32 bits regardless of the machine. The framework will handle the
> differences for you.
>
> That said, you might want to get a 32-bit version of Vista and test with
> it so your clients are comfortable with you developing on a 64 bit system.
>
> Mike Ober.
>
>