CFString Class

Definition

Namespace:

CoreFoundation

Assembly:

Microsoft.iOS.dll

String class used by C-only Cocoa APIs.

public class CFString : CoreFoundation.NativeObject

type CFString = class
    inherit NativeObject

Inheritance

Object

DisposableObject

NativeObject

CFString

Derived

CoreFoundation.CFMutableString

Remarks

Use this class for creating strings that must be passed to methods in the low-level CoreGraphics API.

Constructors

Name	Description
CFString()
CFString(String)	Creates a CFString from a C# string.

Properties

Name	Description
Handle	(Inherited from DisposableObject)
Item[IntPtr]
Length	String length.
Owns	(Inherited from DisposableObject)

Methods

Name	Description
ClearHandle()	(Inherited from DisposableObject)
CreateNative(String, Boolean)	Creates a CFString from the C# string and returns a pointer to it.
CreateNative(String, Int32, Int32, Boolean)	Creates a CFString from the C# string and returns a pointer to it.
CreateNative(String)	Creates a CFString from the C# string and returns a pointer to it.
Dispose()	Releases all resources used by this object. (Inherited from DisposableObject)
Dispose(Boolean)	Releases the resources used by this object. (Inherited from NativeObject)
Equals(Object)	(Inherited from DisposableObject)
FromHandle(NativeHandle, Boolean)	Utility method that returns a string from a pointer that points to an Objective-C NSString or CFString object.
FromHandle(NativeHandle)	Utility method that returns a string from a pointer that points to an Objective-C NSString or CFString object.
GetCheckedHandle()	(Inherited from DisposableObject)
GetHashCode()	(Inherited from DisposableObject)
GetTypeID()	Type identifier for the CoreFoundation.CFString type.
InitializeHandle(NativeHandle)	(Inherited from DisposableObject)
Release()	(Inherited from NativeObject)
ReleaseNative(NativeHandle)	Releases a native Objective-C string.
Retain()	(Inherited from NativeObject)
ToString()

Operators

Name	Description
Implicit(CFString to String)
Implicit(String to CFString)

Extension Methods

Name	Description
GetHandle(INativeObject)
GetNonNullHandle(INativeObject, String)