Structures question.

[Naveen Mukkelli]

Hi,

I'm deveoping a Client/Server application.
I want to send information by using structures.
I want to have a standard header structure, and variable lenght
data.
for example,
---------------------------------------
public struct Header
{
public int sequenceNumber;
public int serviceRequest ;
----
----
}

public struct Info
{
Header head;
byte[] data;
}
-------------------------------
How do we marshal "Info" structure with variable byte[] data.
Currently I'm marshalling in the following way,

[MarshalAs( UnmanagedType.ByValArray, SizeConst= 1024)]
byte[] data;

but as the data should be of variable length, how can we marshal the byte[]
without specifying the size of the byte[]. I mean is there any way that we
can
find the size of the byte[] just before marshalling the sturcture "Info".

Kindly let me know,

Cheers,

Naveen.

[Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu]

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I'm deveoping a Client/Server application.
I want to send information by using structures.

What connection methodology are you using? SOAP? TCP? Remoting?

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[Naveen Mukkelli]

I'm using TCP/IP connection.
"Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu" wrote:

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I'm deveoping a Client/Server application.
I want to send information by using structures.

What connection methodology are you using? SOAP? TCP? Remoting?

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[Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu]

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I'm using TCP/IP connection.

Is there a reason you definitely want to write the structure? What about
using dataset structures and sending it over as XML?
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[Naveen Mukkelli]

Honestly speaking, I don't know how to use Dataset structures and sending them
over as XML. Could you explain in some detail please.

Actually, I'm developing a Class library(Dll) that helps Client/Server
applications.

"Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu" wrote:

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I'm using TCP/IP connection.

Is there a reason you definitely want to write the structure? What about
using dataset structures and sending it over as XML?
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[Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu]

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Honestly speaking, I don't know how to use Dataset structures and
sending them over as XML. Could you explain in some detail please.

A good way is to create a typed dataset. Try this article, its not exactly
what you need, but I think you'll quickly get the idea of how it applies to
your situation. Datatables also supports multiple rows altough this article
does not demonstrate this.

http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/XMLSettingsFile.asp
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[sadhu]

If all you're trying is to send instances of objects over the wire, why
not serialize them and send them directly, instead of trying to marshal
yourself?

MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
BinaryFormatter f = new BinaryFormatter();

f.Serialize(yourObject, ms);

byte []data = ms.ToArray();
socket.Write(data);

You can then do the reverse on the receiving side.

Regards
Senthil