Visual Studio 2010 choose version to Download? (x86/x64)

Generally wondering if there are multiple versions of Visual Studio 2010 to download i.e. I can only find开发者_如何学运维 x86 and unsure if this is the version I want for Win7 x64 [which I am running]

Are there multiple versions available or is the only release version x86 which just install x64 components?

There won't be x64 version of VS2010. For some explanations take a look at Rico Mariani's blog post.

As far as I know there is no 64 bit version of Visual Studio 2010.

See http://news.softpedia.com/news/Don-039-t-Hold-Your-Breath-for-64-bit-Visual-Studio-113943.shtml.

According to the article "customers are better off running the development platform in 32-bit emulation mode on top of 64-bit Windows. And while saying nothing about 64-bit support beyond Visual Studio 2010, the lesson for developers is don't hold your breath for x64 VS."

Not that answer you wanted.

There is no x64 version of Visual Studio...

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Don-039-t-Hold-Your-Breath-for-64-bit-Visual-Studio-113943.shtml

In summary, there's no lift from a 64-bit compiler or IDE.