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public:
 static System::String ^ PtrToStringUni(IntPtr ptr);

[System.Security.SecurityCritical]
public static string PtrToStringUni (IntPtr ptr);

public static string? PtrToStringUni (IntPtr ptr);

public static string PtrToStringUni (IntPtr ptr);

[<System.Security.SecurityCritical>]
static member PtrToStringUni : nativeint -> string

static member PtrToStringUni : nativeint -> string

Public Shared Function PtrToStringUni (ptr As IntPtr) As String

Parameters

Remarks

PtrToStringUni is useful for custom marshaling or for use when mixing managed and unmanaged code. Because this method creates a copy of the unmanaged string's contents, you must free the original string as appropriate. This method provides the opposite functionality of the Marshal.StringToCoTaskMemUni and Marshal.StringToHGlobalUni methods.

This API reflects the Windows definition of Unicode, which is a UTF-16 2-byte encoding. On many non-Windows platforms, the wchar_t data-type is 4-bytes, not 2-bytes. Consult your compiler to confirm if wchar_t can be used or char16_t should be used instead.

public:
 static System::String ^ PtrToStringUni(IntPtr ptr, int len);

[System.Security.SecurityCritical]
public static string PtrToStringUni (IntPtr ptr, int len);

public static string PtrToStringUni (IntPtr ptr, int len);

[<System.Security.SecurityCritical>]
static member PtrToStringUni : nativeint * int -> string

static member PtrToStringUni : nativeint * int -> string

Public Shared Function PtrToStringUni (ptr As IntPtr, len As Integer) As String

Parameters

Remarks

PtrToStringUni is useful for custom marshaling or when mixing managed and unmanaged code. Because this method creates a copy of the unmanaged string's contents, you must free the original string as appropriate. This method provides the opposite functionality of the Marshal.StringToCoTaskMemUni and Marshal.StringToHGlobalUni methods.

This API reflects the Windows definition of Unicode, which is a UTF-16 2-byte encoding. On many non-Windows platforms, the wchar_t data-type is 4-bytes, not 2-bytes. Consult your compiler to confirm if wchar_t can be used or char16_t should be used instead.