Global Allocation (Unmanaged Memory)

[JaedenRuiner]

In C# (which has allowance for C++ type casting) you can do certain things. I was wondering if there is a way to do this sort of "address assignment" in VB.

      Dim ptr As IntPtr = Marshal.AllocHGlobal(8192)
      Dim b() As Byte

' C# style code below
      b = (Byte *) ptr

Basically, i have the Pointer to a global handle for memory, but I want to use it, but one can't really do much in VB without typing it, so the question then becomes if I can Alloc a Global via Marshalling how can i use that IntPtr?
Thanks

 

[JohnH]

Use the other Marshal class methods to read/write to that memory location.