Hi,

I just downloaded Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate 32bits to my laptop( 64 bit ). But when i click on setup.exe, it says: setup will insall the following components;

-Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 64bit prerequisites

-Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate

Does this mean that the program automatically downloads the 64bit version or the program is in 32bit but the prerequisites are 64bit ? I am trying to open a previously constructed library in Visual Studio 2010 32 bit so I have to have the 32bit version of Visual Studio 2010, otherwise it gives compiler error for that library.

Thanks for any help in advance :)

Gokce

Never really seen that message before, but if the installer is a 32-bit installer I would expect that's what it would install. If you are using a download manager on the other hand, it will probably download and install a 64-bit version.

I suggest you contact Visual Studio forum for more advance suggestion

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/home?category=visualstudio

like in C++, there is some step to migrate your project to 64bit which will fix compile error with library

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9yb4317s.aspx

• Edited by britishdhez 4 hours 26 minutes ago

Hi,

I am supposing you are right, Prerequisites actually are system updates, and x86 never applicable on x64 machines. I think after installation, you could check the software version to make sure you installed the right version. If you concern about this, as mentioned by britishdhez, check this with Visual Studio forum since there might be more effective suggestion by other experts who familiar with Visual Studio.

Regards,

D. Wu

I suggest you contact Visual Studio forum for more advance suggestion

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/home?category=visualstudio

like in C++, there is some step to migrate your project to 64bit which will fix compile error with library

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9yb4317s.aspx

• Edited by britishdhez Wednesday, June 10, 2015 2:55 AM

There is no Visual Studio 64 bit version.

It will download the prerequisites to make it run on a 64 bit machine, but you cannot install Visual Studio 64-bit cause there isn't one. :D

Possibly 2015 version might become 64-bit, I don't know, but up to and including 2013, it's 32-bit all the way.

• Proposed as answer by Acreed02 10 hours 37 minutes ago

Thanks for the clarification:)

Regards,

D. Wu