Why do Visual Studio Extensions for WSS 3.0 not support 64-Bit Platforms?

Visual Studio Extensions for WSS 1.2 - Too Bad I Can't Use Them

SPSherm.MyBlog — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:27:36 GMT

(Not in my native Windows environment anyway.) I have a few spare moments at work right now. I've

SharePoint udvikling med Visual Studio 2008

Henrik W H — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:34:23 GMT

Endelig er der kommet tools til SharePoint udvikling til Visual Studio 2008 . Bemærk at du skal køre

Another broken feature...

Kosher — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:36:07 GMT

Seriously, I know I am a nay sayer with my saying of nay but SharePoint has become a serious mess. Performance is a nightmare and now you're saying that Visual Studio has to change its process model so that SharePoint works? How about you guys fix the damn registry access settings to detect the 32 bit process model like everyone else does?

It's almost as if SharePoint is completely detached from the rest of the .NET framework devs and is off on its own little path doing its own thing.

Please fix what you guys have going. You and I both know that the CSS isn't working, the performance of the js classes are slow and have been and need to be updated, and the rest of the platforms is still full of holes.

re: Why do Visual Studio Extensions for WSS 3.0 not support 64-Bit Platforms?

scrowder — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:17:42 GMT

So what is the suggestion for doing WSS development on my vista 64-bit machine?

Should I use sharepoint designer 2007?

re: Why do Visual Studio Extensions for WSS 3.0 not support 64-Bit Platforms?

David Sandor — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:04:25 GMT

This lack of 64 bit support is ridiculous. All of us developers in teh 'real world' have to contend with 32/64 interoperability issues so should you. All the server platforms are targeting x64/64 bit OS models and so developers are adopting this platform not just for seamless dev -> test -> prod deployments. We are making use of our development machines for larger development tasks such as sandboxing virtual machines and running different target OS versions locally. With the consolidation of hardware resources in the IT spectrum many departments are reducing the hardware footprint to opt for beefier machines with more memory in order to support virtualization.

I think the product team has a misconception that the developers are simply using a 64 bit platform for deployment issues. We know how MISL works.

Personally is seems like the product team in this release was stretched so thin that they had to dump the 64 bit support because they were inundated with the complexities of releasing a 64 bit toolset.

Please consider a 64 bit version of the tools as there is more urgency to this than simply deployment issues. I mean I can't have my entire development staff re-tool thier development workstations to an x86 platform because you guys can't work out the interoperability issues with WoW64.

My vote is to open these tools up to CodePlex. The community can manage this transition.

Visual Studio Extensions for WSS 3.0 1.3 CTP contains 64-Bit Support

Matt Bremer's Blog — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:45:38 GMT

Previously I had posted the SharePoint product group's explanation as to why VSeWSS 1.2 did not provide