Visual Studio 32 Bit __top__

In older Visual Studio projects, you may see the platform labeled rather than x86 .

: The Windows SDK included with Visual Studio supports both 32-bit and 64-bit development, providing headers and libraries that allow the same code to target either platform. Microsoft Dev Blogs +9 Feature Implementation Details Feature Implementation / Location Purpose Bitness Targeting Project Properties > Build > Platform Target Explicitly force a project to build for visual studio 32 bit