If I have an IntPtr that points to a structure like this Public Structure VR Public X as Integer Public Y as Integer End Structure Is there a way in VB /VB.NET to refer to this memory in the code without using Marshall.PtrToStructure or Marshall.ReadInt16 and use a structure like code to access the memebers. In other words what I am looking for is something like this Dim MyVr as VR("at" MyIntPtr) Z = MyVr.X + MyVR.Y Any help appreciated. Victor Rubinstein

Yes, we are testing it - it really does help if you have many PC's idle on the network Victor Rubinstein

I saw postings in many forums from many people but still no answer to this. Please, if somebody knows the answer - share it with us! If you run your application from within Dev Studio IDE using "exclamation mark" button (or Ctl+F5) and your app crashes (ASSERT or some other reason) - in all Windows version before XP you'd click "Retry" and your IDE would invoke Just-in-time degugger and stop at the line of code that produced the error. In XP - the IDE seem to be starting the debug mode but at the same time your application is terminated (you get nice message box about it with the only button OK). VC++ 6 SP4 Win XP professional JIT debug enabled AEDebug registry key is pointing to MSDEV.EXE etc. etc. Victor Rubinstein