In Visual Studio you may have noticed, and ignored, the pulldowns in your toolbar which usually contain "Release" "Any Cpu". The "Any CPU" part in particular is of interest especially if you plan on running your apps on Windows 64. These configurations are contained in each project and solution i.e. if you open the projects in a text editor you'll see sections in the XML which contain the settings. These settings are also accessible through the Visual Studio UI via the pulldowns mentioned earlier. The significance of the "Any CPU" is it's telling the compiler to compile the code into assemblies into code which can run on either 32 or 64 bit machines. If your assemblies are used by an application written in 64bit (and of course the app runs on a 64bit machine) then your assemblies will be used in the 64bit context, the same stands for 32bit (of course 32bit apps can also run on 32 or 43 bit machines). 64bit machines have an additional regi...
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