title: 64bit Enums? C#
body: <p>Is it possible to get an enum to hold 64bit values? I wrote the code below and got this compile error message.</p>
  
  <pre><code>enum EnumTest { a = 0x100000000 };
  </code></pre>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>error CS0266: Cannot implicitly convert type 'long' to 'int'. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?)</p>
  </blockquote>