Re: Marshalling strings as fixed length WITHOUT null terminator.

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From: Mattias Sjögren (mattias.dont.want.spam_at_mvps.org)
Date: 02/21/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:08:52 +0100

>How can i make it marshall the strings as "proper" fixed length
>strings, where the full 8 (or 3) characters can be stored without having to
>extend the length of the strings.

Replace the strings with char[] and change the marshaling setting to
ByValArray.

Mattias 

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