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This might not be the right place to ask this, but I am going to give it a shot anyways...

I bought Visual Studio 2015 Professional, for some reason when I followed the download link it was only giving me the option to download 32bit.exe or 32bit.iso, well I want a 64bit version.

So then I logged into visualstudioonline and downloaded the ISO from there and still wasn't given an option to choose whether I want a 32bit version or a 64bit version. Yes, my laptop is 64bit and so is the Windows 10 OS that I am running.

I have called Microsoft and spent a glorious 4 hours being transferred all over the world a total of 15 times and having to repeat myself 15 times only to be transferred again and to no avail.

So can anyone tell me where I can get a 64bit version of Visual Studio 2015?

Thanks.

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    https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Visual-Studio-2015-still-a-32-bit-application – Maarten Bodewes Feb 13 '16 at 14:32
  • What is the problem you are having with the 32-bit version? Did it not install on your system? Do you need to produce and debug 64-bit code? 32-bit Visual Studio can do that. – Sergey Kalinichenko Feb 13 '16 at 14:33
  • @dasblinkenlight, I am working on a enterprise web application and is being deployed to Azure and the consultant has said that I need to be running a 64bit version for what we are doing. He has VS2015 installed and was given the option of 32bit and 64bit – Chris Feb 13 '16 at 14:35
  • I got a 32 bit community edition on my brand new laptop as well. Maybe the consultant just *thinks* he's running a 64 bit IDE? – Maarten Bodewes Feb 13 '16 at 14:36
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    There is no 64-bit version of the IDE. The 64-bit compilers are all included, as well as an x86-x64 cross-compiler. – Cody Gray - on strike Feb 13 '16 at 14:37
  • @MaartenBodewes, I have no idea – Chris Feb 13 '16 at 14:43
  • tell him to open task manager and see if his VS is 32 or 64 bit – phuclv Feb 13 '16 at 14:44
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    best consultant ever (well not surprising) - but anyway: the VS (= basically *just the editor*) is irrelevant to what you are producing in the end - if you need 64bit just change your project/compile settings accordingly – Random Dev Feb 13 '16 at 14:47
  • I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because there is no 64bit VS edition – Random Dev Feb 13 '16 at 14:47
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    @Carsten, I wouldn't say that this is off topic because technology moves at a very fast pace and things could very well have changed, and sometimes when a search is being done ALOT of links are old – Chris Feb 13 '16 at 14:53
  • @Chris sure but why is this different from asking about a tool ... ? – Random Dev Feb 13 '16 at 16:35
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    Possible duplicate of [Visual Studio 64 bit?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2516436/visual-studio-64-bit) – Michael Petch Feb 13 '16 at 22:55
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    I've voting to reopen this question - the correct answer is "There is no 64bit version of VS2015". There may well be a 64 bit of VS2016, or VS2020, who knows? It IS similar to [Visual Studio 64 bit?](http://stackoverflow.com/q/2516436/345659) but specifically about 2015, so it IS different – JumpingJezza Jan 16 '17 at 06:34
  • @JumpingJezza There is no 64-bit VS2017 either. RC just came out. Also, how exactly is this question off topic? If it *is* off-topic, which stack exchange site should it be on exactly? Just because the answer is "there isn't one" doesn't make it a bad question. – ebyrob Mar 01 '17 at 17:13

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All the references I'm finding - although some are 4-years old or older - indicate that there is no 64-bit version (at least not yest). Here's a reference on stack overflow: Visual Studio 64 bit? and an external one: http://www.viva64.com/en/k/0025/

This list from Microsoft of requirements for VS 2015 doesn't mention 64-bit processors at all: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/visual-studio-2015-system-requirements-vs#2

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    2017 RC just came out. Guess what isn't yet 64-bit? – ebyrob Mar 01 '17 at 17:08
  • and also https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio-2015/suggestions/2255687-make-vs-scalable-by-switching-to-64-bit – x29a Jul 08 '17 at 08:33
  • 2019 is out now, still no x64 support apart from a few components https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/517541/vs-2019-downloaded-x64-version-installed-x86.html – anand_v.singh Jul 11 '19 at 04:21