CharSet Enumeration

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This API supports the .NET Framework infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code.

Dictates which character set marshaled strings should use.

Namespace:  System.Runtime.InteropServices
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
<ComVisibleAttribute(True)> _
Public Enumeration CharSet

[ComVisibleAttribute(true)]
public enum CharSet

Members

	Member name	Description
	None	This value is obsolete and has the same behavior as CharSet.Ansi.
	Ansi	Marshal strings as multiple-byte character strings.
	Unicode	Marshal strings as Unicode 2-byte characters.
	Auto	Automatically marshal strings appropriately for the target operating system. The default is Unicode on Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and the Windows Server 2003 family; the default is Ansi on Windows 98 and Windows Me. Although the common language runtime default is Auto, languages may override this default. For example, by default C# marks all methods and types as Ansi.

Version Information

Silverlight

Supported in: 5, 4, 3

Silverlight for Windows Phone

Supported in: Windows Phone OS 7.1, Windows Phone OS 7.0

XNA Framework

Supported in: Xbox 360, Windows Phone OS 7.0

Platforms

For a list of the operating systems and browsers that are supported by Silverlight, see Supported Operating Systems and Browsers.

See Also

Reference

System.Runtime.InteropServices Namespace