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Is IntPtr(long) truncating?
The short answer is: No, not when it matters A colleague and I were discussing a particular scenario around IntPtr,PInvoke and 64 bit correctness.  Eventually our discussion lead us to the IntPtr constructor which takes a long.  To my surprise Read More...

Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 8:00 AM by Jared Parsons | 1 Comments

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Program Files, I just want the 32 bit version
As part of my transition into using 64 bit windows I keep running into a problem with some scripts.  I have a whole set of Powershell scripts that are dedicated to ensuring certain programs are installed on all of my dev machines.  Or that certain Read More...

Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2008 8:00 AM by Jared Parsons | 0 Comments

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Powershell and 64 bit windows helper functions
Recently at work I started using Windows 2008 64 bit edition.  Mainly for hyper-v but powershell also comes as part of the deal.  I'm starting to work through the fun issues of getting some of my environment specific scripts to run in a 64 bit Read More...

Posted Thursday, October 16, 2008 8:00 AM by Jared Parsons | 0 Comments

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