DllImport and char*

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I have a method I want to import from a DLL and it has a signature of:

BOOL GetDriveLetter(OUT char* DriveLetter)

I've tried

    [DllImport("mydll.dll")]
    public static extern bool GetDriveLetter(byte[] DriveLetter);

and

    [DllImport("mydll.dll")]
    public static extern bool GetDriveLetter(StringBuilder DriveLetter);

but neither returned anything in the DriveLetter variable.

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