UnmanagedBuffer Class

Namespace: GHIElectronics.TinyCLR.Native · Assembly: GHIElectronics.TinyCLR.Native

A fixed-address byte buffer suitable for DMA targets and native interop. The Bytes property exposes it as a regular byte[]. Dispose to release the underlying memory.

public class UnmanagedBuffer : IDisposable

Constructors

UnmanagedBuffer(int length)

public UnmanagedBuffer(int length) : this(length, UnmanagedBufferLocation.UnmanagedMemory)

Allocates a buffer of the given length in the unmanaged heap.

Parameter	Type	Description
length	int

UnmanagedBuffer(int length, UnmanagedBufferLocation location)

public UnmanagedBuffer(int length, UnmanagedBufferLocation location)

Allocates a buffer of the given length from the specified heap.

Parameter	Type	Description
length	int	Buffer size in bytes.
location	UnmanagedBufferLocation	Heap to allocate from. Only UnmanagedBufferLocation.UnmanagedMemory is supported.

Properties

Bytes

public byte[] Bytes { get; }

Byte[] view of the unmanaged region. Same address every read.

Methods

Dispose()

public void Dispose()

Releases the unmanaged region.