Calling unmanged code in managed code

[James L. Brown]

Hello

I'm currently working on a project, that contains one .net (VB) executable and a C++ (MFC) DLL. Now, what I want to do is to call the functions in the dll out of my managed code
//managed code (the unmanaged code declarations are just the same - but unmanaged)
Public Class Win32Call
<StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)>
Class MYSTRUC
Public counter1 As Int6
Public counter2 As Int6
End Clas

Declare Function TestMarshalling Lib "test.dll" (ByVal stats As MYSTRUCT) As Boolea
End Clas

//[...
dim s as New Win32Calls.MYSTRUC
//filling s..
Win32Calls.TestMarshalling(s) '!!!

At this point, the debugger throws a System.NullReferenceException - can anyone tell me why?

Thanks a lo
James

[Mattias Sjögren]

James,

//managed code (the unmanaged code declarations are just the same - but unmanaged):

Please post the unmanaged declarations as well. Things aren't always
equal even if they look more or less the same in different languages.

Mattias

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[James L. Brown]

The unmanaged declarations are the following

typedef struct _MYSTRUCT
__int64 counter1
__int64 counter2
}MYSTRUCT

BOOL SetCurrentStatistics(MYSTRUCT stats

AfxMessageBox("Inside the DLL")
[...

[James L. Brown]

Huhhh, sorry. I inserted the wrong code. But the original function TestMarshalling is just the same as SetCurrentStatistics
Any further ideas

James

[Mattias Sjögren]

James,

BOOL SetCurrentStatistics(MYSTRUCT stats)

If the function is using the default _cdecl calling convention, you
should add CallingConvention=CallingConvention.Cdecl to the C#
DllImport attribute.

Mattias

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