How to get reference (pointer) to a structure

tomi

Help please

Ho can I write following (from C#) thing in VB.NET ?

IntPtr pointer = new IntPtr(&mode)

mode is a instance of some structure.
I cannot find any solution. I need to pass the pointer to a structure
to COM+ object Thanks

Tomas

Oct 21 '07 #1

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Mick Walker

tomi wrote:

Help please

Ho can I write following (from C#) thing in VB.NET ?

IntPtr pointer = new IntPtr(&mode)

mode is a instance of some structure.
I cannot find any solution. I need to pass the pointer to a structure
to COM+ object Thanks

Tomas

Aren't pointer operations unsafe in C#?

Oct 21 '07 #2

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Dim pointer As New IntPtr(AddressOf mode)
"tomi" wrote:

Help please

Ho can I write following (from C#) thing in VB.NET ?

IntPtr pointer = new IntPtr(&mode)

mode is a instance of some structure.
I cannot find any solution. I need to pass the pointer to a structure
to COM+ object Thanks

Tomas

Oct 21 '07 #3

Tom Shelton

On Oct 21, 10:07 am, tomi <tomi.tres...@gmail.comwrote:

Help please

Ho can I write following (from C#) thing in VB.NET ?

IntPtr pointer = new IntPtr(&mode)

mode is a instance of some structure.
I cannot find any solution. I need to pass the pointer to a structure
to COM+ object Thanks

Tomas

Usually, it would just make the VB.NET signature as ByRef. So, it
would be:

Dim mode As TheMode
....

theFunction (mode)

I'm not exactly sure why they are doing that in C# either. You're
going to have to be a little more explicit.
--
Tom Shelton

Oct 21 '07 #4

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