date member in VOStruct

[wriedmann]

Hi Robert,
in code I have to migrate I have found a VOStruct that has a date member.
The X# compiler gives me a

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error XS9027: VoStruct member type must be one of the following: bool, byte, short, int, long, char, sbyte, ushort, uint, ulong, float, double, ptr, psz or vostruct

This structure is used in a lot of places so it is not easy to replace.
And since this is not my code, please don't ask me why there was not used a class instead of a struct.
Wolfgang

[robert]

Wolfgang,
I am not sure what the DATE is used for, but you can probably replace it with a DWORD and then when reading / writing cast the DATE to a DWORD or back.
I'll see if we can add support for DATE members in the next build.

Robert

[Chris]

Robert,

I asked Wolfgang to post this question here. I had also faced this issue and thought about using a DWORD, but at the end simply replaced the VOSTRUCT with a normal .Net structure. But I see this issue is more common that I thought, so I was also wondering if it is even possible to make the compiler allow DATEs. Since you say this is a possibility, I will log this as feature request.

[wriedmann]

Hi Robert, hi Chris,
thank you very much for all your efforts!
Wolfgang