I'm using C#  in VS2005 and having a problem when I implement a custom
marshaler and I call a reference type by ref.

Any help greatly appriciated.

I'm using ICustomMarshaler because of the structure contents I'm trying to
marshal. The sample code that follows doesn't show that structure, but I do
need ICustomMarshaler.

My c# code is...

MyClass myClass;        // MyClass is a class
CallNativeCode(myClass);

[DllImport(....)]
protected static extern int CallNativeCode([In, Out,
MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.CustomMarshaler, MarshalTypeRef....] MyClass c1);

Now that works OK when passing data to my native code, my problem is that
the native code can update the marshaled class (hence the In, Out ) but I
don't seem to be able to get the values back into my c# code.  The obvious
thing to do is change the code so that...

MyClass myClass;
CallNativeCode(ref myClass);

[DllImport(....)]
protected static extern int CallNativeCode([In, Out,
MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.CustomMarshaler, MarshalTypeRef....] ref MyClass
c1);

However this caused me problems. First on calling my natvie code, I see
there is another level of indirection. I can't change the native code, so
ref is no good to me!

It seems to me that I need to do the In, Out in the MarshalAs to get things
back from the native side, then the ref to get that data back into the main
line code, however the ref is also being used during the managed to native
marshal.

Am I missing something?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Peter.