C# and logical operators and uints

[suityou01]

I have an api call to createfile and want to pass the following

blah = CreateFile(DRIVER_NAME,GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE .....

the constants are declared as uints but at compile time I get

Operator '|' cannot be applied to operands of type 'uint'

fair enough, so what type should I use? Or is there a C# way of doing this.

C# is suppoooooooosed to be a c based language but I have run into difficulties.

[VectraMan]

You could use +

I'm sure I've done bitfields with C#, but I can't remember how. Or maybe you need to put it into "unsafe" mode.

[suityou01]

You could use +

I'm sure I've done bitfields with C#, but I can't remember how. Or maybe you need to put it into "unsafe" mode.

<zohanmode>
I feel so schtooopid
</zohanmode>

Spot on VM.

[d000hg]

+ works in this case but what if you wanted AND or XOR? C# is not a C-based language, but it does have C-like syntax so I also would have tried what you did. I suggest it's worth finding out for the future.

[Jaws]

The |, ^ and & operators work just fine with uints as per the msdn documentation on C# operators.

uint a = 100;
uint b = 1;

Console.WriteLine(a | b); // displays 101 as expected.

[d000hg]

SY01, what silly error have you made?