David Nadlinger wrote: > On 5/21/11 1:09 PM, Lutger Blijdestijn wrote: >>> And how well do projects from a professional version work in the free >>> (Visual Studio Express) version? >> >> That should work, the professional version is mostly about extra ide >> features, the basics and the toolchain is exactly the same. > > I have encountered quite a few problems though. For example, 64 bit code > generation used to be absent by default from Express versions (maybe it > still is, haven't checked), which is a sensible marketing decision per > se. However, it was implemented in such a way that I couldn't open a > solution file from an open source project I was working on with my > Express edition installation, just because it contained an x64 target… > > David
ouch, that sucks. Wikipedia suggests this works now for 2010 though.
