Where to find API documentation: Marshalling (LocalAlloc, ...)

[Danyel Meyer - dialog-it GmbH]

Hallo group!

I´m searching for documentation on memory allocation features exposed by
PocktPCs "coredll.dll".
What I am interested in is documentation for functions like "LocalAlloc",
"LocalFree" etc.

Any hints?
I´ve searched my local MSDN installation and the help files to PPC 2003 SDK,
but could not find anything on that. I´d like to understand what exactly are
the possibilities for "uFlags" in:

---8<---
<DllImport("coredll.dll", SetLastError:=True)> _
Private Shared Function LocalAlloc( _
ByVal uFlags As Int32, _
ByVal uBytes As Int32) _
As IntPtr
End Function
--->8---

Many thanks in advance,

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[Trevor]

Hallo group!

I´m searching for documentation on memory allocation features exposed by
PocktPCs "coredll.dll".
What I am interested in is documentation for functions like "LocalAlloc",
"LocalFree" etc.

Any hints?
I´ve searched my local MSDN installation and the help files to PPC 2003 SDK,
but could not find anything on that. I´d like to understand what exactly are
the possibilities for "uFlags" in:

---8<---
<DllImport("coredll.dll", SetLastError:=True)> _
Private Shared Function LocalAlloc( _
ByVal uFlags As Int32, _
ByVal uBytes As Int32) _
As IntPtr
End Function
--->8---

Many thanks in advance,

--
Danyel Meyer
-------------------------------------------
dialog-it GmbH
Röllinghäuser Strasse 55a
31061 Alfeld/Leine

Tel +49 (0) 5181 900 814
Fax +49 (0) 5181 900 815
E-Mail danyel.meyer <at> dialog-it.de

Danyel,
You will find that the MSDN with eVC4 (and probably 3 too) is missing a
lot of functions that are implemented in Pocket PC but not in MSDN (e.g.,
IPHelper API). I end up using MSDN Online (msdn.microsoft.com/library) and
it has the CE documentation on there.

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

LocalAlloc's flags can be one of the following:

LMEM_FIXED
LMEM_ZEROINIT

You can find the meanings of them by looking in the desktop help or the
separately-installed CE 4.2 help.

Paul T.