Marshal safearray of struct inside struct

Question

I have the following code in C++ which I need to be able to call from C#:

struct Inner
{
 double data1;
 double data2;
};

struct Outer
{
 double data3;
 SAFEARRAY innerData;
};

int WINAPI ProcessData (Outer& outer )
{
  ...
}

I tried the following but it did not work What am I doing wrong?

[StructLayoutAttribute(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
public struct Inner 
{
 public double data1;
 public double data2;
}

[StructLayoutAttribute(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
public struct Outer 
{
 public double data3;
[MarshalAsAttribute(UnmanagedType.Safearray,ArraySubType = UnmanagedType.Struct)]
 public Inner[] innerData;
}

There's no way to guess the element type from the declaration. Use object[] if the array actually stores variants. — Hans Passant, Feb 11 '10 at 08:45

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 10 '10 at 01:37

1

Did you try this?

  [StructLayoutAttribute (LayoutKind.Sequential)]
  public struct Outer
  {
     public double data3;
     [MarshalAsAttribute (UnmanagedType.SafeArray, SafeArrayUserDefinedSubType=typeof(Inner))]
     public Inner [] innerData;
  }

answered Feb 10 '10 at 01:37

John Knoeller

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[MarshalAsAttribute (UnmanagedType.SafeArray, SafeArrayUserDefinedSubType=typeof(Inner))] works fine. – srajeshnkl Mar 05 '16 at 18:45

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 10 '10 at 01:45

It looks as if the attribute declaration is not correct as its refusing to compile...

[StructLayoutAttribute(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
        public struct Outer
        {
            public double data3;
            [MarshalAsAttribute(UnmanagedType.SafeArray, SafeArraySubType=VarEnum.VT_SAFEARRAY)]
            public Inner[] innerData;
        }

Hope this helps, Best regards, Tom.

Marshal safearray of struct inside struct

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