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ANSI strings

Can I force VB.NET to use non-Unicode strings when passing an argument
to an outside process? The null in the 2nd byte of each "character" is
being interpreted as a string terminator in my dll.

Thanks
Nov 21 '05 #1
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"Dave Cullen" <no*****@mail.com> schrieb:
Can I force VB.NET to use non-Unicode strings when passing an argument
to an outside process? The null in the 2nd byte of each "character" is
being interpreted as a string terminator in my dll.


'Private Declare Ansi Function...'.

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
Nov 21 '05 #2

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