| Marshal Class |
Provides a collection of methods for allocating unmanaged memory, copying unmanaged memory blocks, and converting managed to unmanaged types, as well as other miscellaneous methods used when interacting with unmanaged code.
Inheritance HierarchyNamespace: System.Runtime.InteropServices
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll) Version: 4.0.0.0
SyntaxC#
public static class Marshal
The Marshal type exposes the following members.
Methods| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
  | OffsetOf | Returns the field offset of the unmanaged form of the managed class. |
| SizeOf(Object) | Returns the unmanaged size of an object in bytes. |
| SizeOf(Type) | Returns the size of an unmanaged type in bytes. |
Fields| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | SystemDefaultCharSize | Represents the default character size on the system; the default is 2 for Unicode systems and 1 for ANSI systems. This field is read-only. |
| SystemMaxDBCSCharSize | Represents the maximum size of a double byte character set (DBCS) size, in bytes, for the current operating system. This field is read-only. |
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