title: How to set platform target for a ASP.NET "web site" project
body: <p>I keep running into all sorts of nuances between the "web site project" versus "web application project" - here is the latest for me:</p>
  
  <p>I've inherited a Visual Studio 2005 solution with several class library projects (a DAL.dll, a Biz.dll, etc.) but this is all "fronted" by a <strong>web site project</strong> rather than a web app project.</p>
  
  <p>While the <strong>web app project</strong> provides a Platform Target dropdown list (Any CPU, x86, x64), the poor <strong>web site project</strong> appears to offer nothing like that. <strong>Is there a way to ensure the web site runs as x86</strong> when hosted on a 64bit IIS machine? </p>
  
  <p>..The bigger picture of why I am asking this:</p>
  
  <p>The website runs on a 64bit machine (Win Server 2003) and <em>[I have just learned]</em> cannot load a 32bit COM object which I believe has been wrapped with a Runtime Callable Wrapper. Because it cannot load this piece, a web.config setting is set to avoid the runtime load error by bypassing the load of this 32bit dll (but all of the functionality of COM dll is therefore "lost" when the site is running on a 64 bit machine). </p>
  
  <p>So, in summary, I presume the web site on the 64bit machine must be running in IIS as a 64bit app and that if I could just get the site to run as 32bit instead, then it <strong>could</strong> load the COM dll and therefore execute that functionality of the application. </p>
  
  <p>NOTE: I have been and still am doing research here in preparation for a quick uptake when I get access to the actual development environment so much of my question is based on piecing together parts of my [anticipated] problems to be faced soon. Thanks. </p>