Folks (including any Microsoft boffins on this subject), When I read Joe Duffy's book Framework 2.0 <https://www.amazon.com/Professional-NET-Framework-2-0-Programmer/dp/0764571354> 10 years ago he clarified how the .NET compilers generate platform agnostic IL which is JIT'd into native code at runtime appropriate for the architecture. This makes perfect sense, and as a result I have set every project I've ever created to "Any CPU" and simply trusted all the tools in the pipeline to execute my code in the best way it chooses.
Now that almost all desktop and server machines are running 64-bit Windows, I want to know if there is any advantage of any kind in changing my compile projects and installer (vdproj) projects to target x64. I personally suspect there will be no performance change or any other advantage, but I'll like confirmation of this (or not). One obscure advantage of x64 installer projects is that they go into the 64-bit Program Files folder and not the (x86) one. I just think this looks nicer! I have a vague recollection that debugging 64-bit apps in Visual Studio can be troublesome. Is that also true? *GregK*
