i have to marshal pointer to structure in C#

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I have a c++ dll which needs to be ported onto c#. There is structure under which there is a nested structure which is pointed by a pointer.
Code Snippet is as follows:
Struct Application
{
struct hostent *hp;
};

Since i am new to the concept of marshalling, please let me know i anybody had hands on this kind of structure.

Posted 4-Feb-15 23:56pm

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bling · Answer 1 · 2015-02-06T07:51:00

Instead of porting the code over to C# byte for byte, look for equivalent functionality in the .NET framework.

The hostent structure is usually used to associate hostname and IP address.

For example ...

C++

System.Net.IPAddress[] list = System.Net.Dns.GetHostAddresses("www.codeproject.com");