I'm having a very difficult time coming across an appropriate solution
for this seemingly simple problem. I've written a managed wrapper
class for some legacy C++ routines. One routine generates an array of
ints, which I wish to expose through the managed wrapper. The managed
C++ wrapper is being used as an intermediary to allow VB.NET to access
the legacy C routines (and the return array, in particular).
Given these constraints, can someone please instruct the best course of
action? I can't figure out how to define/update the C array to be .NET
compatible. Do I need to use the Marshal class? Do I need to declare
an "array<int, 1>" and use a handle (^). Any help, particularly
specific syntax examples, would be tremendous.
void returnArray(int * pArray, int& pSize); //Legacy C function
Thanks, Josh
12  2190 
Without doing any research I would think you have to use a SAFEARRAY in your
managed wrapper.
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I'm having a very difficult time coming across an appropriate solution
for this seemingly simple problem. I've written a managed wrapper
class for some legacy C++ routines. One routine generates an array of
ints, which I wish to expose through the managed wrapper. The managed
C++ wrapper is being used as an intermediary to allow VB.NET to access
the legacy C routines (and the return array, in particular).
Given these constraints, can someone please instruct the best course of
action? I can't figure out how to define/update the C array to be .NET
compatible. Do I need to use the Marshal class? Do I need to declare
an "array<int, 1>" and use a handle (^). Any help, particularly
specific syntax examples, would be tremendous.
void returnArray(int * pArray, int& pSize); //Legacy C function
Thanks, Josh
Kurt thank you for responding. Unfortunately even if a SAFEARRAY is
the answer, I am uncertain how to properly implement it. If anyone
else has suggestions and specific examples I'd be grateful.
-Josh
jo*********@gma il.com wrote:
I'm having a very difficult time coming across an appropriate solution
for this seemingly simple problem. I've written a managed wrapper
class for some legacy C++ routines. One routine generates an array of
ints, which I wish to expose through the managed wrapper. The managed
C++ wrapper is being used as an intermediary to allow VB.NET to access
the legacy C routines (and the return array, in particular).
Given these constraints, can someone please instruct the best course
of action? I can't figure out how to define/update the C array to be
.NET compatible. Do I need to use the Marshal class? Do I need to
declare an "array<int, 1>" and use a handle (^). Any help,
particularly specific syntax examples, would be tremendous.
void returnArray(int * pArray, int& pSize); //Legacy C function
Based on that declaration, it looks like the caller is allocating memory
that this function will fill. If that's indeed the case, you can create a
managed array and pass a pinned pointer to the first element of that array
to your legacy function. The fact that pSize is being passed by reference
leads me to suspect that it's set to the size of the memory allocation on
input to the function, and set to the size of the actual data on return from
the function.
#pragma unmanaged
extern void r(int* p, int& s);
#pragma managed
public ref class X
{
static array<int>^ f(int s)
{
array<int>^ a = gcnew array<int>(s);
pin_ptr<intp = &a[0];
r(p,s);
return a;
}
};
-cd
Kurt wrote:
Without doing any research I would think you have to use a SAFEARRAY
in your managed wrapper.
SAFEARRAY is needed only for returning an array to VB6 or any other OLE
automation client. VB.NET can handle an array<int>^ since that's just an
ordinary CLR array.'
-cd
Josh
Look in MSDN there are several good examples for creating SAFEARRAYs.
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Kurt thank you for responding. Unfortunately even if a SAFEARRAY is
the answer, I am uncertain how to properly implement it. If anyone
else has suggestions and specific examples I'd be grateful.
-Josh
Kurt, thanks again. Carl, your example seems to be the direction I
need to head. Thank you for getting me pointed there. I will take
examine how this C++.NET class looks when viewed from VB.NET.
Can you tell me how the .NET code will differ when the C routine does
the memory allocation AND the array filling (returning an array
pointer)?
Thank you.
-Josh
Kurt, thanks again. Carl, your example seems to be the direction I
need to head. Thank you for getting me pointed there. I will take
examine how this C++.NET class looks when viewed from VB.NET.
Can you tell me how the .NET code will differ when the C routine does
the memory allocation AND the array filling (returning an array
pointer)?
Thank you.
-Josh
Kurt, thanks again. Carl, your example seems to be the direction I
need to head. Thank you for getting me pointed there. I will take
examine how this C++.NET class looks when viewed from VB.NET.
Can you tell me how the .NET code will differ when the C routine does
the memory allocation AND the array filling (returning an array
pointer)?
Thank you.
-Josh
Kurt, thanks again. Carl, your example seems to be the direction I
need to head. Thank you for getting me pointed there. I will take
examine how this C++.NET class looks when viewed from VB.NET.
Can you tell me how the .NET code will differ when the C routine does
the memory allocation AND the array filling (returning an array
pointer)?
Thank you.
-Josh
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