array question

[Horatiu Ripa]

I'm having one or more classes that contains only declarations of primitives and primitives initialized arrays
i.e:
class PrimitivesStruc ture
{
public int32 integer1;
public char[] array1 = new char[20];
public int[] array2 = new int[10];
...
}
How can I found, dianmically, from another class, the length in bytes of declared primitives arrays?
For primitive fields it's simple:

PrimitivesStruc ture myObject = new PrimitivesStruc ture();
foreach (System.Reflect ion.FieldInfo fi in myObject.GetTyp e().GetFields() )
{
if (!fi.FieldType. IsArray)
Console.WriteLi ne(System.Runti me.InteropServi ces.Marshal.Siz eOf(Activator.. CreateInstance( fi.FieldType))) ;
}

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Horatiu Ripa

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Horatiu,

Technically, what you are doing isn't correct. When you use the static
SizeOf method on the Marshal class, it is the size of the marshaled data,
not of the representation in .NET. Granted, there usually is a one-to-one
relationship between the number of bytes used to represent the type in .NET
and in the unmanaged realm, but in general, it should not be assumed that is
the case.

What you could do is use the sizeof operator, but that is only allowed
in unsafe code. If that is not acceptable, then you should create a method
which will map the types to their sizes.

Hope this helps.

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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- nick(dot)paldin o=at=exisconsul ting<dot>com

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I'm having one or more classes that contains only declarations of primitives
and primitives initialized arrays
i.e:
class PrimitivesStruc ture
{
public int32 integer1;
public char[] array1 = new char[20];
public int[] array2 = new int[10];
...
}
How can I found, dianmically, from another class, the length in bytes of
declared primitives arrays?
For primitive fields it's simple:

PrimitivesStruc ture myObject = new PrimitivesStruc ture();
foreach (System.Reflect ion.FieldInfo fi in myObject.GetTyp e().GetFields() )
{
if (!fi.FieldType. IsArray)

Console.WriteLi ne(System.Runti me.InteropServi ces.Marshal.Siz eOf(Activator.C r
eateInstance(fi .FieldType)));
}

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Horatiu Ripa