Visual Studio Express 2008 - Target Platform

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I've developing on xp64, and from a couple other topics I'm supposed to
change my target platform to X86 if i wanna do some specific 32bit stuff.

However, the option is supposed to be in Project properties - build tab...
but it's not there, where did it go? Do I have to do something specific to
my project for it to show?

Thanks

Jan 4 '08 #1

Jon Skeet [C# MVP]

Jono <Jono@discussions.microsoft.comwrote: Hmm... on my box (x86) it's under "Define DEBUG constant" and "Define
TRACE constant" as a "Platform target: " dropdown. What's on your Build
tab?

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Jan 4 '08 #2

RobinS

You don't see a dropdown box for "platform target" in the first section
(General)? What do you see in that section? What version of Visual Studio
are you using?

RobinS.
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Jan 4 '08 #3

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Here's my build options screen
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...008options.jpg

Here's my about box
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/retrad/about.jpg

I downloaded the VS Offline Install from here
http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/default.aspx

I'm using Windows XP 64bit edition

I installed the Visual C# and DirectX SDK (Nov 07) and am getting a not a
win32 application exception, but there's a post on here from about last week
saying I need to change my target platform option to x86 to do that kinda
stuff however... I can't. The help gives me a command line option to specify
the platform, but then goes on to say that this option is not valid inside
the IDE.

"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" wrote:

Jan 4 '08 #4

Jon Skeet [C# MVP]

Jono <Jono@discussions.microsoft.comwrote: Hmm. My guess is that it's something which the Express edition doesn't
allow, but that's only a guess.

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Jan 4 '08 #5

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oh, i mean the command line parameter is not a valid option, it goes on to
say to use the options screen to change the target platform...

i guess i gotta get a virtual machine loaded somewhere and do my development
on there, which is really annoying

"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" wrote:

Jan 4 '08 #6

Jon Skeet [C# MVP]

Jono <Jono@discussions.microsoft.comwrote: You may be able to put it in the project (.csproj) file, even if you
can't access it in the UI.

For instance, find a section like the one below, and include the
<PlatformTargetelement (which won't currently be there, I suspect):

<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' ==
'Debug|AnyCPU' ">
<DebugSymbols>true</DebugSymbols>
<DebugType>full</DebugType>
<Optimize>false</Optimize>
<OutputPath>bin\Debug\</OutputPath>
<DefineConstants>DEBUG;TRACE</DefineConstants>
<ErrorReport>prompt</ErrorReport>
<WarningLevel>4</WarningLevel>
<PlatformTarget>x86</PlatformTarget>
</PropertyGroup>

I *hope* this would work...

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Jan 4 '08 #7

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"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" wrote:
Thanks Jon, worked like a charm

Jan 4 '08 #8

Karl Mitschke

Hello Jono,
Juno;

AFAIK, you cannot target 64bit with the express editions, so there is no
need for an option for x86.

Karl

Jan 8 '08 #9

Willy Denoyette [MVP]

"Karl Mitschke" <kmitschke@somestate.govwrote in message
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Unfortunately, the default target for a C# project is MSIL (AnyCPU) , which
means it will run as 64-bit on a 64-bit OS.
This is particularly bad, as you can't load a 32-bit DLL in a 64-bit
process, which is what the OP is trying to do.
Choosing MSIL as default target was a big mistake, the default target
should have been X86, which is valid for +99% of the systems targeting the
CLR.

Willy.

Jan 8 '08 #10