C# DllImport with C++ boolean function not returning correctly

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I found the solution for your problem. Your declaration should be preceded with this marshaling:
[return:MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.I1)]

so everything should look like this: 

[DllImport("Whisper.dll", EntryPoint="Exist", CallingConvention=CallingConvention.Cdecl)]  
[return:MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.I1)]  
public static extern bool Exist([MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)] string name);

I tested it in my very simple example and it worked!

EDIT
Why this happens? C defines bool as 4 bytes int (as some of you have said) and C++ defines it as 1 byte. C# team decided to use 4 byte bool as default during PInvoke because most of the system API function use 4 bytes values as bool. If you want to change this behavior you have to do it with marshaling specifying that you want to use 1 byte value.

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