32 and 64 bit ready code .NET

Question

Hi is there any automated testing tools that checks the code for 32 and specially migrating to 64bit code, and windows 7 ready?

I am thinking mostly about API calls and functions.

Best regards, Patrik

Answer 1

Hi,
Could you clarify your question? are you wondering how to migrate your application from 32-bit to 64-bit?

Thanks,
Eric

---

Please remember to mark helpful replies as answers and unmark them if they provide no help.

Answer 2

I think it was fairly clear, he's looking for automated tools that check code for 32->64 bit and windows 7 migration problems.

I don't know about tools, but here's what I'd do to check out code:

1. P/Invoke signatures.  Try doing a code search for 'DllImport'.  Specifically, look for ints that should be IntPtrs.
2. Custom control drawing (Windows Forms).  I don't know a whole lot about this one but I've seen a lot of problems.
3. Security... try running the app/test suite as a user instead of an admin and see what happens...

Answer 3

Yes, what I was looking for was an automated tool checking my 32bit code if it is 64bit ready!

I have seen some blogs and tutorials telling about C99 standard, and P/Invoke problems that should be taken into consideration when implementing.

Actually we now have a custom control in .NET 2.0 that is behaving totally different on a 64bit platform (w7 x64).

The control is not using any native objects, so I am excluding invoke to native problems.

Are there any other typical design problems that I could investigate?

thanks, Patrik