I’m wondering if anyone can give me a good example of using pointers in C# in .Net and why you chose to use pointers?
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I’m wondering if anyone can give me a good example of using pointers in C# in .Net and why you chose to use pointers?
This isn’t really a question to specific to ASP.NET.
If you are going to use pointers in .NET, the predominant reason is that you have an interop scenario where it is going to be easier to use pointers in unsafe code instead of IntPtr instances.
The second most popular (and distant) reason is because you might actually have a performance gain in processing large amounts of data in unsafe code than in managed code. Image processing algorithms are a good example of this.