VB.NET Language Pocket Reference

Name

VBFixedString Attribute — Microsoft.VisualBasic.VBFixedStringAttribute

Synopsis

Applies to

Field

Description

Defines a fixed-length string. It is the rough equivalent of the VB 6 declaration:

Dim s As String * length

It can be used to define fixed-length strings within structures, particularly structures that are to be passed to Win32 API functions, as well as to define fixed-length strings to be written to and read from random access files.

Constructor

New(length)

length Integer

The length of the string

Properties

Length Integer

Read-only. The length of the string. Its value is set by the length parameter in the class constructor.