How to detect Windows 64-bit platform with .NET?

Question

In a .NET 2.0 C# application I use the following code to detect the operating system platform:

string os_platform = System.Environment.OSVersion.Platform.ToS         


        

Answer 1

All fine, but this should also work from env:

PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86

..

PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=AMD64

Too easy, maybe ;-)

Answer 2

The full answer is this (taken from both stefan-mg, ripper234 and BobbyShaftoe's answer):

    [DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError = true, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.Winapi)]
    [return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)]
    public static extern bool IsWow64Process([In] IntPtr hProcess, [Out] out bool lpSystemInfo);

    private bool Is64Bit()
    {
        if (IntPtr.Size == 8 || (IntPtr.Size == 4 && Is32BitProcessOn64BitProcessor()))
        {
            return true;
        }
        else
        {
            return false;
        }
    }

    private bool Is32BitProcessOn64BitProcessor()
    {
        bool retVal;

        IsWow64Process(Process.GetCurrentProcess().Handle, out retVal);

        return retVal;
    } 

First check if you're in a 64 bit process. If you're not, check if the 32 bit process is a Wow64Process.

Answer 3

Enjoy ;-)

Function Is64Bit() As Boolean

    Return My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories.ProgramFiles.Contains("Program Files (x86)")

End Function

Answer 4

.NET 4 has two new properties in the Environment class, Is64BitProcess and Is64BitOperatingSystem. Interestingly, if you use Reflector you can see they are implemented differently in the 32-bit & 64-bit versions of mscorlib. The 32-bit version returns false for Is64BitProcess and calls IsWow64Process via P/Invoke for Is64BitOperatingSystem. The 64-bit version just returns true for both.

Answer 5

OSInfo.Bits

using System;
namespace CSharp411
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main( string[] args )
        {
           Console.WriteLine( "Operation System Information" );
           Console.WriteLine( "----------------------------" );
           Console.WriteLine( "Name = {0}", OSInfo.Name );
           Console.WriteLine( "Edition = {0}", OSInfo.Edition );
           Console.WriteLine( "Service Pack = {0}", OSInfo.ServicePack );
           Console.WriteLine( "Version = {0}", OSInfo.VersionString );
           Console.WriteLine( "Bits = {0}", OSInfo.Bits );
           Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

Answer 6

Using dotPeek helps to see how the framework actually does it. With that in mind, here's what I've come up with:

public static class EnvironmentHelper
{
    [DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
    static extern IntPtr GetCurrentProcess();

    [DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
    static extern IntPtr GetModuleHandle(string moduleName);

    [DllImport("kernel32")]
    static extern IntPtr GetProcAddress(IntPtr hModule, string procName);

    [DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
    static extern bool IsWow64Process(IntPtr hProcess, out bool wow64Process);

    public static bool Is64BitOperatingSystem()
    {
        // Check if this process is natively an x64 process. If it is, it will only run on x64 environments, thus, the environment must be x64.
        if (IntPtr.Size == 8)
            return true;
        // Check if this process is an x86 process running on an x64 environment.
        IntPtr moduleHandle = GetModuleHandle("kernel32");
        if (moduleHandle != IntPtr.Zero)
        {
            IntPtr processAddress = GetProcAddress(moduleHandle, "IsWow64Process");
            if (processAddress != IntPtr.Zero)
            {
                bool result;
                if (IsWow64Process(GetCurrentProcess(), out result) && result)
                    return true;
            }
        }
        // The environment must be an x86 environment.
        return false;
    }
}

Example usage:

EnvironmentHelper.Is64BitOperatingSystem();