Handling exception form unmanaged dll in C#

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Published on 2010-05-18T06:18:32Z Indexed on 2010/05/18 6:20 UTC
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Hello.
I have the following function written in C#

public static string GetNominativeDeclension(string surnameNamePatronimic)
{
    if(surnameNamePatronimic == null) 
       throw new ArgumentNullException("surnameNamePatronimic");

IntPtr[] ptrs = null;
try
{
    ptrs = StringsToIntPtrArray(surnameNamePatronimic);

    int resultLen = MaxResultBufSize;
    int err = decGetNominativePadeg(ptrs[0], ptrs[1], ref resultLen);
    ThrowException(err);
    return IntPtrToString(ptrs, resultLen);
}
catch
{
    return surnameNamePatronimic;
}
finally
{
    FreeIntPtr(ptrs);
}

}

Function decGetNominativePadeg is in unmanaged dll


[DllImport("Padeg.dll", EntryPoint = "GetNominativePadeg")]
private static extern Int32 decGetNominativePadeg(IntPtr surnameNamePatronimic,
    IntPtr result, ref Int32 resultLength);

and throws an exception: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.
The catch that is in C# code doesn't actually catch it. Why? How to handle this exception?
Thank you for your help!

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