Allocate Memory?

[ug505]

I know this is kind of a weird question, but how do you...allocate physical memory? I know using New will make a new object but it's not allocating what I'm looking for. Here's kind of what I'm looking for:

http://www.soft.tahionic.com/download-memalloc/index.html

That program allocates memory in the way I want to. How would I go about allocating around...say 500 MB? Or will VB.NET not allow this because of it's memory management?

 

[ug505]

I know in Delphi I would do

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
FileData : TStringList;
TimeNow : LongInt;
begin
  TimeNow:=timeGetTime;
  while (TimeNow + 20000) > timeGetTime do FileData:=TStringList.Create;
end;

 

[jebenson]

Take a look at the System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal class, specifically the AllocHGlobal function.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.runtime.interopservices.marshal.aspx

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