ResGen.exe error: An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format

Recently, we’ve seen a number of people reporting problems with resource generation in Visual Studio 2010, particularly when they target .NET Framework 3.5 on 64-bit machines.  In this blog post, I will highlight one of the most common errors; when and where it occurs, and how to work around it.  In a later post, we’ll take a look at some other somewhat less common errors, and some background on