The company added that shifting to 64-bit does not change the bitness or types of applications that can be built with Visual Studio, and that Visual Studio will continuing to be a tool for developing 32-bit apps. The 64-bit Visual Studio IDE on Windows will enable developers to open, edit, run, and debug large, complex applications without running out of memory, Microsoft said. Moving to 64-bit will reduce component memory usage and optimize Visual Studio’s 32-bit design. Visual Studio 2022 will be a 64-bit application, no longer limited to about 4GB of memory in the main devenv.exe process. Among the promised improvements, Visual Studio 2022 promises to be 64-bit, faster, more lightweight, and more approachable.ĭue in a first public preview this summer, Visual Studio 2022 will be built for a range of users spanning from learners to experienced developers building industrial-scale solutions. Microsoft has big plans for the next major release of its signature Visual Studio IDE.