Microsoft is readying a first public preview of its next version of Visual Studio, called Visual Studio 2022, for "this summer." And the coming release, as had been rumored, will be going 64-bit.

The compiler for visual studio has supported 32 and 64 bit compilation for more than a decade now. Now there may be other compatibility pain related to opening old solutions in a modern IDE.

Microsoft has officially announced the Visual Studio 2022 is getting its first public preview this summer, and that it will bring some big news including switching to a 64-bit architecture.

What you need to know Visual Studio has been a 32-bit platform in the past. Visual Studio 2022's first preview build offers 64-bit support. The new preview build is now available.

With Visual Studio 2022, you'll finally be able to take advantage of all of your system RAM. Earlier versions of Visual Studio are 32-bit applications, thereby hobbling VS to a maximum of 2GiB RAM ...