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PLS
I'm trying to write the definition of a struct that must exactly match
the binary layout of a struct created by a native c++ program.

The C++ struct contains several wchar_t[] and char[] fields containing
text. So...

a. How should I represent these field in the C# struct?
b. How do I convert that representation into C# strings?

Thanks for any help
++PLS
Nov 2 '07 #1
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Google has tons of articles on this exact topic.

This one looks pretty good:
http://www.vsj.co.uk/articles/display.asp?id=501

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I'm trying to write the definition of a struct that must exactly match
the binary layout of a struct created by a native c++ program.

The C++ struct contains several wchar_t[] and char[] fields containing
text. So...

a. How should I represent these field in the C# struct?
b. How do I convert that representation into C# strings?

Thanks for any help
++PLS

Nov 2 '07 #2

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