Build targets

[John E]

I'm pretty experienced with C++ (MSVC) but up until today I've had no experience with C#. However, earlier today someone gave me a C# project to experiment with (i.e. a Visual Studio project). One thing struck me immediately...

When building with C++ I need to define different build targets for building as either 32-bit or 64-bit. But in the C# project I can't immediately see anything similar. It kinda looks like the same executable will run on both (which seems counter-intuitive to me). Am I just misunderstanding something?

[Arjay]

What version of visual studio?

[John E]

I'm running Visual Studio 2015 (Community Edition) but it looks like the VS project that I got given must have come from VS 2013.

[John E]

In case it helps, the .sln files for my C++ projects contain entries like this:-

	GlobalSection(ProjectConfigurationPlatforms) = postSolution
		{80208D6F-AD26-4CF3-980E-363F27246AD0}.Debug|Win32.ActiveCfg = Debug|Win32
		{80208D6F-AD26-4CF3-980E-363F27246AD0}.Debug|Win32.Build.0 = Debug|Win32
		{80208D6F-AD26-4CF3-980E-363F27246AD0}.Release|Win32.ActiveCfg = Release|Win32
		{80208D6F-AD26-4CF3-980E-363F27246AD0}.Release|Win32.Build.0 = Release|Win32
	EndGlobalSection

whereas the C# .sln file looks more like this:-

	GlobalSection(ProjectConfigurationPlatforms) = postSolution
		{0A5CF6D4-A6AB-400F-8772-E1C698A0D727}.Debug|Any CPU.ActiveCfg = Debug|Any CPU
		{0A5CF6D4-A6AB-400F-8772-E1C698A0D727}.Debug|Any CPU.Build.0 = Debug|Any CPU
		{0A5CF6D4-A6AB-400F-8772-E1C698A0D727}.Release|Any CPU.ActiveCfg = Release|Any CPU
		{0A5CF6D4-A6AB-400F-8772-E1C698A0D727}.Release|Any CPU.Build.0 = Release|Any CPU
	EndGlobalSection

[Arjay]

There's build settings that target 32 or 64 bit or All. There is also a prefer 32 bit (for All when running on 64 bit systems).

Right click on the project in the solution explorer and select the build settings.

[John E]

I found them Arjay, thanks. That makes more sense now!