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I'm having one or more classes that contains only declarations of primitives and primitives initialized arrays
i.e:
class PrimitivesStructure
{
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:

PrimitivesStructure myObject = new PrimitivesStructure();
foreach (System.Reflection.FieldInfo fi in myObject.GetType().GetFields())
{
if (!fi.FieldType.IsArray)
Console.WriteLine(System.Runtime.InteropServices.M arshal.SizeOf(Activator..CreateInstance(fi.FieldTy pe)));
}

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Horatiu Ripa

Nov 15 '05 #1
1 1396
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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- nick(dot)paldino=at=exisconsulting<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 PrimitivesStructure
{
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:

PrimitivesStructure myObject = new PrimitivesStructure();
foreach (System.Reflection.FieldInfo fi in myObject.GetType().GetFields())
{
if (!fi.FieldType.IsArray)

Console.WriteLine(System.Runtime.InteropServices.M arshal.SizeOf(Activator.Cr
eateInstance(fi.FieldType)));
}

--
Horatiu Ripa
Nov 15 '05 #2

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