Re: Unmanaged code(dll) function: int myfunc (char* temp)

Hi,
Thanks for ur Reply....
I tried StringBuilder it worked, But there is some problem with conversion i
think.
When i tried to convert it to string as sb.Tostring(), it is giving me some
junk characters which are not alphanumeric.

Can u tell me what i need to do to convert the stringbuilder sb to some
alphanumeric string.

Murthy.

"<ctacke/>" wrote:

First thing to know is that CE doesn't store strings in a char* type, it
uses UTF16, so they are wchar_t.

If the native DLL will be putting data into that variable, you need to
allocate enough memory for it before the call. The easiest way is with a
StringBuilder.

int myfunc (TCHAR* temp)
{
.....
}

[DllImport("mylib.dll")]
public static extern int myfunc(StringBuilder sb);

void MyCall()
{
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(255);
int ret = myfunc(sb);
}


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"Murthy" <Murthy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:5F9D1506-CD19-4390-B633-0BDE53BCC1DA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,
I want to do an unmanaged call to an DLL
Unmanaged code(dll) function: int myfunc (char* temp)
Here return int type determines the Success.
After execution of the function temp will contain an value

How to do the unmanaged call to this function from c# and later how to
retrieve the value from temp, which hold a string value.

thanks in Advance,
Murthy




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