I need to develop an ever increSing counter in C#. I am thinking about converting GUID to long. Is that possible in c#? Is there any other way to develop an ever increasing counter?
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I need to develop an ever increSing counter in C#. I am thinking about converting GUID to long. Is that possible in c#? Is there any other way to develop an ever increasing counter?
No, a GUID is 128 bit so won’t fit in your long since that is 64 bit. A System.Decimal is 128 bit so will get you a long way, but of course that also has it’s limits. Even if you save your counter in a string it has its limits. Computers alsways have limits, you will have to find one which is big enough so you can continue for a while.
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In .Net 4.0 there is a BigInteger which can be pretty big, but remember, even that has its limits since it has to fit in memory.