[OT] Re: There's new GIT instructions on Github now

[Lutger Blijdestijn]

David Nadlinger wrote:

> On 5/21/11 1:09 PM, Lutger Blijdestijn wrote:
>>> And how well do projects from a professional version work in the free
>>> (Visual Studio Express) version?
>>
>> That should work, the professional version is mostly about extra ide
>> features, the basics and the toolchain is exactly the same.
> 
> I have encountered quite a few problems though. For example, 64 bit code
> generation used to be absent by default from Express versions (maybe it
> still is, haven't checked), which is a sensible marketing decision per
> se. However, it was implemented in such a way that I couldn't open a
> solution file from an open source project I was working on with my
> Express edition installation, just because it contained an x64 target…
> 
> David

ouch, that sucks. Wikipedia suggests this works now for 2010 though.