[RESOLVED] Avoiding Memory Leaks - CopyMemory

[Milk]

I am getting a little out of touch but, I assume you both know that when passing strings to API, VB makes a temporary ANSI copy of the string and passes the temporary copy instead. By passing the first element ByRef VB knows you are passing a reference to something which contains a string so it makes a temporary ANSI copy of the first element (and just the first element) and passes that. Hence apparent garbage. If you followed that string pointer I bet you find an ANSI string.

The moral of the story should perhaps be, be careful with ByRef strings and API.