Using Visual Studio 2005 (32bit) on a Windows 7 64bit machine.

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I need to use Visual Studio 2005 (C++) on my new laptop - a Sony Vaio with Windows 7 64bit..

I don't need to develop for a 64bit environment, my work is all 32bit, so how can I be sure that I can still develop/debug/test for a 32bit target environment using VS2005 on a 64bit machine....?

What's the best option:

1) Just install VS2005 on Windows 7 64bit and carry on.. (suspect problems with 64bit runtime libs..?)

2) Dual boot the laptop with Windows XP 32bit.

3) Run some kind of Virtual Machine with Windows XP in it... (I don't have a VM yet, but would look into it)

Thanks

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