How do I detect if my .net application is running in 64 bit mode

I would imagine that you could just take the size of a reference (if 4 bytes
= 32 if 8 bytes = 64) although there might be a method somewhere that
already does this.

Cheers,

Greg

"Martijn Boven" <ma*****@daxis.nlwrote in message
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Is there a function which returns is my application is in 64 bit mode?

-Martijn

You can just check the static Size property on the IntPtr class.

Hope this helps.
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"Greg Young" <dr*******************@hotmail.comwrote in message
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>I would imagine that you could just take the size of a reference (if 4
bytes = 32 if 8 bytes = 64) although there might be a method somewhere that
already does this.

Cheers,

Greg

"Martijn Boven" <ma*****@daxis.nlwrote in message
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>Is there a function which returns is my application is in 64 bit mode?

-Martijn

That's smart. Thanks for the answer.

Greetings,
Martijn

"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.comwrote in
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You can just check the static Size property on the IntPtr class.

Hope this helps.
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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com

"Greg Young" <dr*******************@hotmail.comwrote in message
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>>I would imagine that you could just take the size of a reference (if 4
bytes = 32 if 8 bytes = 64) although there might be a method somewhere
that already does this.

Cheers,

Greg

"Martijn Boven" <ma*****@daxis.nlwrote in message
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>>Is there a function which returns is my application is in 64 bit mode?

-Martijn

btw this code works fine:

public static bool Is64BitMode()
{
return System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.SizeOf(type of(IntPtr))
== 8;
}

"Martijn Boven" <ma*****@daxis.nlwrote in message
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That's smart. Thanks for the answer.

Greetings,
Martijn

"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.comwrote
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> You can just check the static Size property on the IntPtr class.

Hope this helps.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com

"Greg Young" <dr*******************@hotmail.comwrote in message
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>>>I would imagine that you could just take the size of a reference (if 4
bytes = 32 if 8 bytes = 64) although there might be a method somewhere
that already does this.

Cheers,

Greg

"Martijn Boven" <ma*****@daxis.nlwrote in message
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Is there a function which returns is my application is in 64 bit mode?

-Martijn