How to pass SAFEARRAY of UDTs to unmaged code from C#.

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Published on 2010-04-18T18:56:18Z Indexed on 2010/04/18 19:03 UTC
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I also used VT_RECORD. But didn't got success in passing safearray of UDTs.

        [ComVisible(true)]
        [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
        public class MY_CLASS
        {
            [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.U4)]
            public Int32 width;
            [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.U4)]
            public Int32 height;
        };

    [DllImport("mydll.dll")]
    public static extern Int32 GetTypes(
        [In, Out][MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.SafeArray, SafeArraySubType = VarEnum.VT_RECORD, SafeArrayUserDefinedSubType = typeof(MY_CLASS))]MY_CLASS[] myClass,
        [In, Out][MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.SafeArray, SafeArraySubType = VarEnum.VT_RECORD, SafeArrayUserDefinedSubType = typeof(Guid))]Guid[] guids
        );

If i communicate with my unmanaged code without 1st parameter, Then there is no error in passing "guids" parameter to unmanaged code.

I also able to cast elements of obtained SAFEARRAY at unmanaged side to GUID type. But If i tried to pass my UDT class MY_CLASS to unmanaged code with SAFEARRAY then it fails on managed code. (as above code snippet)

It shows exception "An unhandled exception of type 'System.Runtime.InteropServices.SafeArrayTypeMismatchException' occurred in myapp.exe" "Additional information: Specified array was not of the expected type."

Plz help me in such a situation to pass SAFEARRAY of UDTs to unmaged code.

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