title: How to create x64 version of native console project?
body: <p>I have a VS2008 solution with several libraries and 4 console apps. All build and run correctly in 32 bit mode. The libraries all build and run in x64 mode in another solution with a C# app and a C++/CLI interface layer.</p>
  
  <p>Now I need to build an x64 flavor of the 4 console apps (functional and unit tests for the libraries).</p>
  
  <p>On the Configuration Manager dialog, the Platform dropdown for these 4 projects offers only Win32 as an option. (x64 is also there for the libraries). The Edit and New options are there but do not seem to offer a way to create an x64 choice.</p>
  
  <p>Presumably VS2008 is disallowing x64 for some reason. Is there some other attribute or option I need to set first?</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: Trying to create a new platform in Configuration Manager fails because there already is an x64 platform. It is available to all the library projects.</p>