C# in a Nutshell

Name

Overlapped

Synopsis

This class encapsulates the Win32 API OVERLAPPED structure. NativeOverlapped is needed to mimic the structure the API expects, but this class encapsulates the overlapped structure into a .NET class. You can create NativeOverlapped structures by calling Pack(), and create Overlapped objects with the static Unpack() method. To avoid a memory leak, each NativeOverlapped that you create must also be freed by calling the static Free() method. Unpack() does not free the memory.

public class Overlapped {
// Public Constructors
   public method Overlapped();  
   public method Overlapped(int offsetLo, int offsetHi, 
        int hEvent, IAsyncResult ar);  
// Public Instance Properties
   public field IAsyncResult AsyncResult{set; get; } 
   public field int EventHandle{set; get; } 
   public field int OffsetHigh{set; get; } 
   public field int OffsetLow{set; get; } 
// Public Static Methods
   public static method void Free(
        NativeOverlapped *nativeOverlappedPtr);  
   public static method Overlapped Unpack(
        NativeOverlapped *nativeOverlappedPtr);  
// Public Instance Methods
   public method NativeOverlapped* Pack(
        IOCompletionCallback iocb);  
   public method NativeOverlapped* UnsafePack(
        IOCompletionCallback iocb);  
}