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.

Microsoft announced the first public preview of Visual Studio 2022. The improved tool will be faster, more lightweight, and will be a 64-bit app.

Visual Studio 2015, which Microsoft is positioning as a 'toolset for any developer targeting any device on any platform,' is now available for download.

Given the slow transition to 64-bit technologies, the Whidbey development platform will most likely be used primarily for writing 32-bit code.

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.