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Just a minor C# issue I came across yesterday. I needed to assign an error code to the protected HResult member of a class derived from the .NET Exception class. The following code does not compile, resulting in an "assigning uint to int" error message and casting won't work and casting to int doesn't work because the value is too large

HResult = 0x80045000;

In a case like this you need to use the unchecked keyword to indicate that you're not bothered about the arithmetic overflow:

HResult = unchecked((int)0x80045000);