Question

Since we have three assemblies that come in explicit x86 and x64 versions, I’ve edited the corresponding .csproj file(s) to use, for example, a block like this:

  <ItemGroup Condition=" '$(Platform)' == 'x86' ">
    <Reference Include="CaliberRMSDK">
      <HintPath>..\Libraries\CaliberRMSDK_IKVM\32bit\CaliberRMSDK.dll</HintPath>
    </Reference>
    <Content Include="..\Libraries\CaliberRMSDK_IKVM\32bit\ikvm-native.dll">
      <Link>ikvm-native.dll</Link>
      <CopyToOutputDirectory>Always</CopyToOutputDirectory>
    </Content>
    <Content Include="..\Libraries\CaliberRMSDK_IKVM\32bit\JVM.dll">
      <Link>JVM.dll</Link>
      <CopyToOutputDirectory>Always</CopyToOutputDirectory>
    </Content>
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup Condition=" '$(Platform)' == 'x64' ">
    <Reference Include="CaliberRMSDK">
      <HintPath>..\Libraries\CaliberRMSDK_IKVM\64bit\CaliberRMSDK.dll</HintPath>
    </Reference>
    <Content Include="..\Libraries\CaliberRMSDK_IKVM\64bit\ikvm-native.dll">
      <Link>ikvm-native.dll</Link>
      <CopyToOutputDirectory>Always</CopyToOutputDirectory>
    </Content>
    <Content Include="..\Libraries\CaliberRMSDK_IKVM\64bit\JVM.dll">
      <Link>JVM.dll</Link>
      <CopyToOutputDirectory>Always</CopyToOutputDirectory>
    </Content>
  </ItemGroup>

When reloading the .csproj file in Visual Studio 2010 and using ‘x86’ as platform, all works perfectly fine. When choosing ‘x64’ as platform, the proper 64bit assembly reference is used BUT the linked ( <Content Include= ...> ..) always uses the 32bit ones (and therefore the app is broken).

There’s no Any CPU anymore in the project files and I would have ‘expected’ it to work just fine for the content includes, too.. but it doesn’t. Is there anything I am missing?

Answer 1

So this is ‘only’ a visual / display problem. Underneath builds do use the proper references etc, only VS2010 displays the wrong one. All good, just not visible.