Just a quick post for today.  I needed to use the LPPROCESS_INFORMATION C type from managed code today, so I poped over to PInvoke.net to see if there was any information on it.  There was a definition for PROCESS_INFORMATION, but nothing on LPPROCESS_INFORMATION (well, yes there is now ... but that's because I put it there :-)  ).

Anyway, here's a quick snippet on going from PROCESS_INFORMATION to LPPROCESS_INFORMATION in managed code.  (Since I don't like capitals and underscores in my C#, I've renamed PROCESS_INFORMATION to ProcessInformation).  Next week I'll blog more about why I needed this.

[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
public struct ProcessInformation
{
    public IntPtr hProcess;
    public IntPtr hThread;
    public uint dwProcessId;
    public uint dwThreadId;
} 

ProcessInformation procInfo = new ProcessInformation();
GCHandle procInfoHandle = GCHandle.Alloc(procInfo, GCHandleType.Pinned);
         
try
{
    IntPtr lpprocessInformation = procInfoHandle.AddrOfPinnedObject();
    // ... code that needs to use the LPPROCESS_INFORMATION ...
}
finally
{
    procInfoHandle.Free();
}        

Note that you can't use the C# using construct with a GCHandle, since GCHandles do not implement IDisposable, so you need to use a try ... finally construct.