"Mattias Sjögren" <mattias.dont.want.spam@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> James,
>
>>For this example, I'd be
>>happy to cast it to a string type. Can anyone shed some light on how to
>>do
>>this in C#?
>
> call Marshal.PtrToString[Ansi/Uni/Auto]()
>
>
>
> Mattias
>
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>For this example, I'd be
>happy to cast it to a string type. Can anyone shed some light on how to do
>this in C#?

"Mattias Sjögren" <mattias.dont.want.spam@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> James,
>
>>Put another way, if I use this method call and create a managed string
>>object, and then I append some characters to the string, does it actually
>>use/change the unmanaged memory?
>
> No. If that's what you want, you'll have to copy the changes back to
> the original buffer yourself.
>
>
> Mattias
>
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>Put another way, if I use this method call and create a managed string
>object, and then I append some characters to the string, does it actually
>use/change the unmanaged memory?

>That's fine. So just to clarify then, C# doesn't support type casting (or
>otherwise marshalling) unmanaged memory to a managed type in any way, shape
>or form, right?