Understand build platforms

Applies to: Visual Studio Visual Studio for Mac Visual Studio Code

You can store different versions of solution and project properties that apply to different target platforms. For example, you can create a Debug configuration that targets an x86 platform and a Debug configuration that targets an x64 platform. You can quickly change the active platform so that you can easily build multiple configurations.

In this section

How to: Configure projects to target platforms
Explains how to configure a project to target a specific platform.

How to: Configure projects to target multiple platforms
Explains how to configure a project to target multiple platforms.

See also

• Walkthrough: Build an application
• Build and clean projects and solutions in Visual Studio
• Compile and build