How to determine programmatically whether a particular process is 32-bit or 64-bit

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One of the more interesting ways I’ve seen is this:

if (IntPtr.Size == 4)
{
    // 32-bit
}
else if (IntPtr.Size == 8)
{
    // 64-bit
}
else
{
    // The future is now!
}

To find out if OTHER processes are running in the 64-bit emulator (WOW64), use this code:

namespace Is64Bit
{
    using System;
    using System.ComponentModel;
    using System.Diagnostics;
    using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

    internal static class Program
    {
        private static void Main()
        {
            foreach (var p in Process.GetProcesses())
            {
                try
                {
                    Console.WriteLine(p.ProcessName + " is " + (p.IsWin64Emulator() ? string.Empty : "not ") + "32-bit");
                }
                catch (Win32Exception ex)
                {
                    if (ex.NativeErrorCode != 0x00000005)
                    {
                        throw;
                    }
                }
            }

            Console.ReadLine();
        }

        private static bool IsWin64Emulator(this Process process)
        {
            if ((Environment.OSVersion.Version.Major > 5)
                || ((Environment.OSVersion.Version.Major == 5) && (Environment.OSVersion.Version.Minor >= 1)))
            {
                bool retVal;

                return NativeMethods.IsWow64Process(process.Handle, out retVal) && retVal;
            }

            return false; // not on 64-bit Windows Emulator
        }
    }

    internal static class NativeMethods
    {
        [DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError = true, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.Winapi)]
        [return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)]
        internal static extern bool IsWow64Process([In] IntPtr process, [Out] out bool wow64Process);
    }
}

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