Newbie Problems

[Wizatek]

They do now indeed because pragma pack is used. But before there was padding involved.

But even with the padding C# could still read it fine with Marshal.PtrToStructure

 

public static T ByteToType<T>(BinaryReader reader)
{
byte[] bytes = reader.ReadBytes(Marshal.SizeOf(typeof(T)));

GCHandle handle = GCHandle.Alloc(bytes, GCHandleType.Pinned);
T theStructure = (T)Marshal.PtrToStructure(handle.AddrOfPinnedObject(), typeof(T));
handle.Free();

return theStructure;
}