Build Configuration: Mixed Platform VS Any CPU

Question

What\'s the difference between different Build Configuration settings e.g. Any CPU, Mixed Platform, WIN32 etc in Visual Studio.

Answer 1

The build configuration names don't mean very much - they proliferate if you have C++ and C# projects in the same solution (and even worse if you have mobile projects too), because the various types of projects use different configuration names, so you end up with lots of them.

We try to keep deleting all the configurations we're not using, but that's hard work sometimes as often when you add a new project, unwanted configurations will be added back to the solution.

My recommendations is to decide on what configurations you need (by looking at the actual settings within them), and then remove everything else.