Why is there no 64bit version of Visual Studio 2010?

Question

I only see x86 version in msdn downloads.

Answer 1

I bet most of the work would be testing both editions and managing the code for both editions from a single codebase. This isn't how the IDE team has worked (multi-CPU-architecture) the entire time it has existed. They took the big bet on managed code in VS10, so I can see how they might not want to take on additional risk in that cycle.

If I was managing such a task I'd wait for a longer release cycle.

Update: I was wrong in thinking .NET 5 would be released with Win 8, but no. Instead we got .NET 4.5, then .NET 4.5.1 with Win 8.1. Many small, incremental releases with the shortened Windows release cycles.