Oh dear, I never knew!  As I said I use VS Pro because I have easy and legal 
access to it, and one of the first things I always do is set up an x86 and x64 
cross-build.  In fact, I'm almost tempted to go x64 exclusively.  Not sure why 
Microsoft thinks VS Express is good for you.  :)

Davy

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From: Gamers [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2013 22:50
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question

Hi Davy,

Well, what I mentioned is a small sampling of things missing in the express 
edition. There are actually quite a number  of things missing in VS Express 
that you get with VS Pro, and while I don't want to list them all here do to 
time constraints it is safe to say VS Express is very limited.

One thing I find very aggravating is you can not change the target platform 
with VS Express. When you get it the only platform is Win32 projects for x86 
processors. So as most machines now are x64 processors one should be able to 
specifically target those processors and platforms, but it is not an option in 
VS Express. At least not the version I use which is 2010. So I still have to 
use VS Pro 2008 as I don't have the finances to upgrade to a newer version of 
Visual Studio Pro right now.

Cheers!


On 12/14/13, Davy Kager <[email protected]> wrote:
> Fun that you should mention that, Thomas: as a student I have been 
> legally using Visual Studio Professional free of charge for a few 
> years now.  I never realized how crippled the Express edetion can be.  
> Apple is definitely doing a good job providing their IDE for free, to anyone.

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