How to force Visual Studio to use x64 DNX SDK architecture

Question

I'm using 1.0.0-beta7 x64 but visual studios insists I'm using x86. When I delete all my runtimes except the one I'm targeting I get this:

I can't find a reference to x86 anywhere in my project.

When I hover over the Solution DNX SDK version here it shows the x86 version but I don't know where it's getting this from. Currently this isn't causing any problems I'm just trying to understand what's going on.

Answer 1

Right-click in your, web (not solution) project and select Properties. Click "Use Specific Runtime" and pick the dnx runtime that you want from the dropdown. All this does is set the "sdkVersion" in the /Properties/launchSettings.json of your project.

The "sdk" in your global.json indicates the minimum sdk version that the project will run but won't run your project against it. It'll take the setting you have in launchSettings.json instead.