Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Converting .NET Managed String Objects to NULL Terminated Char Pointers in C++

This is something that took me a long time to get figured out, and I'm still not sure if I am correctly transfering the data from the managed string object into the NULL terminating char pointer:

1#pragma managed
2char* TranslateRealStringToCharPtr(System::String* strToConvert)
3{
4	System::String* StringPointer = strToConvert;
5	char* CharPointer = _
6	  (char*)(void*)Marshal::StringToHGlobalAnsi(StringPointer);
7	return CharPointer;
8}