Visual Studio Express edition is a striped down version of the professional version. Thus, some features are not directly, or easily, available.
One of these features is to run in 32 bit on a 64 bit computer.
To make it work, all one has to do is define the target platform as x86:
- Close the C# project.
- Open the C# Project file, .csproj, with a plain text editor, such as Notepad.
- Make shure that the following entry is present in all three sections of PropertyGroup:
Here’s a snippet:
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<PropertyGroup>
<Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == '' ">Debug</Configuration>
<Platform Condition=" '$(Platform)' == '' ">x86</Platform>
<ProductVersion>8.0.30703</ProductVersion>
<SchemaVersion>2.0</SchemaVersion>
<ProjectGuid>{E8D4119C-8E3F-4A41-84A6-70F848F3CA1A}</ProjectGuid>
<OutputType>WinExe</OutputType>
<AppDesignerFolder>Properties</AppDesignerFolder>
<RootNamespace>WindowsFormsApplication1</RootNamespace>
<PlatformTarget>x86</PlatformTarget>
<AssemblyName>Frotas</AssemblyName>
<TargetFrameworkVersion>v4.0</TargetFrameworkVersion>
<TargetFrameworkProfile>Client</TargetFrameworkProfile>
<FileAlignment>512</FileAlignment>
<IsWebBootstrapper>false</IsWebBootstrapper>
<PublishUrl>C:\work\MyApp\Publish\</PublishUrl>
<Install>true</Install>
<InstallFrom>Disk</InstallFrom>
<UpdateEnabled>false</UpdateEnabled>
<UpdateMode>Foreground</UpdateMode>
<UpdateInterval>7</UpdateInterval>
<UpdateIntervalUnits>Days</UpdateIntervalUnits>
<UpdatePeriodically>false</UpdatePeriodically>
<UpdateRequired>false</UpdateRequired>
<MapFileExtensions>true</MapFileExtensions>
<ApplicationRevision>6</ApplicationRevision>
<ApplicationVersion>1.0.0.%2a</ApplicationVersion>
<UseApplicationTrust>false</UseApplicationTrust>
<PublishWizardCompleted>true</PublishWizardCompleted>
<BootstrapperEnabled>true</BootstrapperEnabled>
</PropertyGroup>
[...]
After performing a rebuild, the application will be built in 32 bit.