what's the relation of “win32 project” name in visual studio to x86 or x64 platform

Question

I\'m using Visual Studio for c++ programming, and after working and writing programs in x86 environment (32bit Mode) I tried to build my x86 project in x64 environment so I

Answer 1

The other answers pretty much have it covered, but I thought I might add the following clarifications:

X86 is for Intel/AMD's 32 bit chip set. Win32 can support other chipsets, such as ARM in a Windows Mobile project.

Furthermore, when building native c++ applications for x86, the platform will actually be called win32.