Code Quality: Added a static method to the PCWSTR struct that allows constructing from a string #17135
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This method makes it easier to pass in a
PCWSTR
struct to a P/Invoke method that might previously require a string input.A lot of methods generated by CsWin32 that require unsafe will prefer a
PCWSTR
passed as an argument over a literalSystem.String
however this method allows using a string value (via fixing thestring
in memory as achar*
) for simplicity and so that code isn't reused.e.g.: