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DLLImport Problem with LPCSTR and BOOL

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Thomas Fisher

Hi All,

I am trying to use LaunchRunner in Baf.dll, it's defined like this:

BOOL CDECL LaunchRunner (LPCSTR szUserDisplay, BOOL* pbEnabled);

I'm trying to use it in a vb.net app but can't make it work. Here are some
attempts I've made:

1)
'This one uses a pointer to a boolean and does no marshaling
<DllImport("Baf.dll")> _
Public Shared Function LaunchRunner(ByVal szUserDisplay As String, ByVal
pbEnabled As Integer) As Boolean
End Function

2)
'This one uses marshaling
<DllImport("Baf.dll")> _
Public Shared Function LaunchRunner (<MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPWStr)>
ByVal szUserDisplay As String, <MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)> ByVal
pbEnabled As Boolean) As <MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.VariantBool)> Boolean
End Function

3)
'Old style declare. Shouldn't function differently than above
Private Declare Auto Function LaunchRunner Lib "Baf" Alias
"LaunchRunner" (ByVal szUserDisplay As String, ByVal pbEnabled As Boolean)
As Boolean

But none of them are working. Here's the code for converting the string for
unmanaged use:

Dim buffer As String = "AB"
buffer.PadRight(255, vbNullChar)

And I'm getting a pointer to a boolean like this:

Dim S As Integer = Marshal.SizeOf(B.GetType)
Dim bPtr As IntPtr = Marshal.AllocHGlobal(S)
Marshal.StructureToPtr(B, bPtr, True)

And here's how I'm calling the method:

LaunchRunner(buffer, bPtr.ToInt32)

Thanks in advance for any help at all on this!

- Tom

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Naveen K Kohli

Have you tried passing the BOOL (second parameter) by ref instead of Val.
Thats probably where your call is failing.

<DllImport("Baf.dll")> _
Public Shared Function LaunchRunner(ByVal szUserDisplay As String, ByRef
pbEnabled As Integer) As Boolean

Naveen Kohli
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Thomas Fisher

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Thanks for the advice.

Just tried it and no go. Same null reference error. Any other ideas?
Anybody?

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