Problem with Marshalling char* in c#

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Published on 2010-04-24T17:45:58Z Indexed on 2010/04/24 17:53 UTC
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I have a problem calling this function from a c++ DLL in c#

INT32 WINAPI PM_COM_GetText(INT32 TextId, char* pBuf, INT32 BufSize);

It writes a Text in a buffer for a given text id. I try to call it with the following c# code, but I constantly get an access violation and don't undrestand why:

public string GetText(Int32 TextId)
{
  Int32 BufSize = 256;
  StringBuilder Str = new StringBuilder(BufSize);
  PM_COM_GetText(TextId, Str, BufSize);
  return Str.ToString();
}

[DllImport("ComDll.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Ansi)]
private static extern Int32 PM_COM_GetText(Int32 TextId, StringBuilder Str, Int32 BufSize);

I don't see what's wrong, it looks to me like many other code snippets I found in the web.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

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