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Representing C/C++ unions and bitfields in C#

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You are a seasoned C++ applications or embedded programmer, and you need to access an integer bitfield as a set of specific bits. You know how to do this: union   myUnion { unsigned   int   info ; struct { unsigned   int   flag1   :   1 ;   // bit 0 unsigned   int   flag2   :   1 ;   // bit 1 unsigned   int   flag3   :   1 ;   // bit 2 unsigned   int   flag4   :   1 ;   // bit 3 unsigned   int   flag5   :   1 ;   // bit 4 unsigned   int   flag6   :   1 ;   // bit 5 // . // . // . unsigned   int   flag31   :   1 ;   // bit 31 }; }; Supposing, however, you are a C#/.NET programmer. What do you do then? There is no provision or direct support in the language to do this. What tools do...