visual studio 2008 C++ no x64 platform

Question

I installed Visual Studio 2008 on my Windows 7 x64 laptop together with installation of Service Pack 1.

Now I want to add x64 platform to my C++ solution. But there

Answer 1

If your projects don't have the x64 configuration, just add that configuration via the configuration manager. I don't remember if 2008 created the x64 configuration by default but I suspect not.

I also seem to remember that you can just add the x64 configuration to the solution and it will prompt on whether or not to add it to all of the contained projects but my memory is rusty on that one.

Regardless, once you've got the configurations added, you'll need to modify anything you'd modified before in project settings. Output paths, library dependencies, etc. The New Configuration "Wizard" is pretty dumb.